RIF Idiome
get my drift
understand my meaning, dig me I don't think of you as a sister, if you get my drift.
petrified
very frightened, scared stiff Gigi was petrified when a spider crawled up her leg.
short shrift
rude treatment She received short shrift from her supervisor when she asked for a holiday.
trifle with me
be careless about my feelings, mind games, toy with me When John forgot that he asked me to go to the dance, I felt he was trifling with me.
coolarific
cool and terrific
gorgorific
got it going on
rift
see step to
watching Andy Griffith
refers to masturbating
New sheriff in town
This is used when a new authority figure takes charge.
drift off|drift
v. phr. 1. To fall asleep,
He kept nodding and drifting off to sleep while the lecturer was speaking. 2. To depart; leave gradually.
One by one, the sailboats drifted off over the horizon.
sacrifice fly|fly|sacrifice
n. A baseball hit high in the air that helps a runner score after it is caught.
Mantle drove in two runs with a single and a sacrifice fly.
short shrift|short|shrift
n. Little or no attention.

Usually used with "get" or "give".
In books about jobs, women's work is consistently given short shrift.
cast adrift
cast adrift see
cast loose.
catch the drift
catch the drift see
get the drift.
cut adrift
cut adrift Separated or detached; freed. For example,
The dissenters were cut adrift from the denomination. This expression alludes to cutting the rope of a floating vessel so that it drifts without direction or purpose. The figurative use of
adrift dates from the late 1600s.
drift
drift see
get the drift.
get the drift
get the drift Also,
catch the drift. Understand the general meaning or purport. For example,
I didn't get the drift—do they want to go or not? or
Over all the noise he barely managed to catch the drift of their conversation. The noun
drift has been used for “purport” since the early 1500s.
give short shrift
give short shrift see
short shrift, give.
short shrift, give
short shrift, give Also,
get short shrift. Give (or receive) cursory attention or little time. For example,
The architect made elaborate plans for the entry but gave short shift to the back of the house. Literally,
shrift refers to confession to a priest, who gives absolution and penance, and
short shrift to the brief time allowed for this sacrament to a prisoner before execution. Shakespeare so used it in
Richard III (3:4), but it came to be used more loosely in succeeding centuries. [Late 1800s]
shrift
shrift see
short shrift, give.
trifle
trifle a trifle Very little; somewhat:
a trifle stingy.