There’s a lot to love about Michael Curtiz’s White Christmas: the music, its homey warmth, and certainly star Bing Crosby’s otherwordly slang.
Here are a few choice phrases with a rough translation, so you can bring a little Bing into your everyday speech:
- Slam-bang finish = a great finale
- Hunk of dynamite = star performer
- Mish-mosh = fight, scene
- First sacker = first baseman
- Scatback = fast, agile running back
- Grab the cow = grab the milk
- Time, time, cut! = slow down
