Describing a date
A sheik looking for a new sheba may describe a date the previous evening something like this; “We ankled to the drum, and I slipped the baby grand a sawbuck to get in. They said they had the real McCoy but it was horse lineament and when I beefed they gave me the bum’s rush. I tried to get her to the petting pantry, but she gave me the icy mitt. Didn’t know she was Mrs. Grundy. When I got her back to her crib dapper was waiting on the porch, and I didn’t get cash. Flat tire. Might have another stab though. Choice bit of calico. Great gams.”
To which his companion may well reply: “I took the nickel down to drop some busthead for a little lettuce, maybe pick up a couple of fins. Some drugstore cowboy bimbo took it off me. Some chunk of lead saw me and told a dick, and now I’m on the lam from the mulligans. Can’t use the jalopy because it’s a breezer and the bulls will see me. There’s a flat tire.” The entire conversation would make perfect sense to both parties, though neither tale of woe is indicative of the previous evening being the cat’s pajamas.