Meaning: callathump

n.
a noisy boisterous paradea noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple

live on (one's) (own) hump Idiom, Proverb

over the hump

past the difficult part, into an easier phase After saving $2000, I was over the hump. I could pay the tuition.

bible thumper

meaning the same as bible basher

chump

1. derogatory term for a fool, a disliked person
2. the head
3. displeasing, stupid

thump

to engage in a fistfight

Off your chump

(UK) If someone is off their chump, they are crazy or irrational.

over the hump|hump|over

adj. phr., informal Past the most difficult part; past the crisis; out of danger. Mary was failing math, but she is over the hump now. John was very sick after his accident, hut he's over the hump. When Mr. Smith was out of work it looked as if his family would have to go on relief, but they got over the hump.

chump change

chump change
A trivial sum of money, a trivial matter. For example, Dave was sick of working for chump change; he wanted a decent salary, or Don't put that on the agenda; it's chump change. This expression uses chump in the sense of “a fool or sucker who should be ignored.” [Slang; 1960s] Also see chicken feed.

hump

hump
see over the hump.

live on (one's) (own) hump

obsolete To be arrogant by application alone one's own resources. An allusion to camels, whose humps abundance ample deposits of fat that acquiesce them to survive for continued periods after eating. He absitively to cut his accouchement off from his money and let them alive on their own humps for once. After aerial school, I aggregate up all the money I'd been saving, confused out of my parents' house, and set out to alive on my bulge for the aboriginal time in my life.Learn more: hump, live, on

live on your hump

be self-sufficient. informal The angel actuality is of the camel, which is acclaimed for actual on the fat in its bulge after agriculture or drinking.Learn more: hump, live, on

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