Guy next door gay meaning
banana bender
A Queenslander. The term derives from the joking notion (as perceived from the southern states of Australia) that Queenslanders spend their time putting bends into bananas. An article from 15 July 1937 in the Queenslander provides a forerunner to the term when a man is asked by the Queen what his occupation is:
"I'm a banana-bender". Further to enlighten her Majesty he explained that bananas grew straight on the trees, and so just before they ripened, his was the job to mount the ladder, and with a specialised twist of the wrist, put into the fruit the Grecian bend that was half its charm.
The association of bananas with Queensland ('banana land') is based on the extensive banana-growing industry in tropical Queensland. The Queensland border has been called the Banana curtain and Brisbane has been called Banana city. Banana bender, in reference to a Queenslander, is first recorded in 1940 and is till commonly heard.
1964 D. Lockwood Up the Track: We are so close to Queensland that I think we should hop over the border. What do you say to a quick look at the banana-benders?
2011 Northern Star (Lismore) 11 July: Should the Matilda's [sic] ha
Basically the same sort of thing as a girl next door. He's sweet, charming, and quite cute, although he doesn't seem to know it.
Guys next door don't really dig the whole taking advantage of a girl thing, and although able to be one of the lads, they can be great mates with girls as well.
They dress casually, and although they don't try to stand out in the crowd or be the centre of attention, they still shine.
Guy's next door usually have one of those laughs or smiles that is able to make you feel instantly happier.
As part of a relationship, guys next door are typically the kind who seem quite casual about dating- they don't try it on fast. But, as with a girl next door, the guy isn't seen as being that involved in a relationship... but anyone who's been in one with a guy next door will know that they're dark horses, and alot more fun and pasionate than you first thought.
So if you find a guy next door (and you happen to be a girl next door)... this one's a keeper.
Bring him home to the parents no problem!
Seth, from the O.C is a bit of a guy next door....although he's got a bit of a nerd thing going on
(despite that......mmmm
the boy next door
the girl/boy next door
1. An ordinary person from typical circumstances, as opposed to someone with an elite or exceptional life. With the accessibility of technology now, the next billionaire could be the teen next door—you never know!
2. A (typically young) person with whom one is familiar, such as a neighbor (hence "next door"), or who exudes such familiarity, and who exemplifies a certain stereotype of wholesomeness, approachability, and well-roundedness, while perhaps being a source of latent romantic attraction due to a fondness resulting from such familiarity. Interpretations vary as to what exactly makes someone fit this description. Mary was always the girl next door, but when I came home from college I realized I was in love with her.
See also: boy, door, young woman, next
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2024 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
the boy next door
orthe girl next door
If you describe someone as the lad next door or the young woman next door, you mean that they are pleasant and usual. He was dependable, straightforward, the boy next door.She was the girl next door type.
See also: boy, door, next
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed
I’m gay and I’m not a top or a bottom – I’m a ‘side’
As a gay man, prying strangers and potential hook-ups alike have asked me one question more times than I’ve had hot dinners.
‘Top or bottom?’
Words get me out of bed in the morning, and when uttered by the right people at the right time, they’ve also been known to get me into bed.
But neither of these – top or bottom – accurately describe what I prefer to get up to in the boudoir, so my response has always been a guarded mix of shrug and mumble.
Here’s the tea: I’m actually a ‘side’, a term coined by American psychotherapist and sexologist Joe Kort to describe those, like me, for whom penetrative sex – in either position – does very little.
Getting the peach involved is, quite literally, a pain in the ass, but as for the aubergine, let’s just say that hands and mouths always understand the assignment way better.
To continue the food metaphor: if man-on-man action were a dinner party, I’d have zero interest in sitting down to a bland meal when the amuse-bouches are so good.
I confess that I indulged in a lot of sex in my 20s – penetrative sex.
It oddly took yon
I have never been to the National Gallery. It’s my hidden shame after living in Ireland for a year, and not something that I would usually tell people. But today I’m rushing through it, unable to appreciate the art, to make sure I’m not late for my interview with one of Ireland’s youngest politicians.
As I dash through the brightly lit building, I’m approached by a man only a few years older than myself, who might have just come from hosting an event for Apple. Senator Fintan Warfield is dressed in a slim-fitting, grey suit with a black turtleneck underneath, the epitome of a fashionable 25-year-old and far from the typical dress code of your average Irish politician.
A Sinn Féin senator, Warfield is part of a new breed of young, socially-conscious Sinn Féin politicians. While he might look like he just stepped out of Silicon Valley, his path to Irish culture is somewhat predictable, even romantic.
“I was politicised largely by folk music and songs in my teenage years. And that would have largely created this interest in history and politics. Songs have this ability to tell a common story”, he says. If heritage is everything in Irish politics, Warfield mi