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• poor sod — British impolite used for saying that you feel sorry for someone Everyone was laughing at the poor sod …   English dictionary

• POOR SOD — …   Useful english dictionary

• sod — [ sad ] noun 1. ) count or uncount MAINLY LITERARY a piece of earth that has grass and roots growing in it 2. ) count BRITISH IMPOLITE a word for someone you dislike or who annoys you a ) poor sod BRITISH IMPOLITE used for saying that you feel… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• sod — 1 noun 1 (C) BrE informal an impolite word meaning a stupid or annoying person, especially a man: Get up, you lazy sod! 2 be a sod BrE informal an impolite expression meaning to be very difficult: That door s a sod to open. 3 poor sod BrE spoken… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• sod — sod1 [sɔd US sa:d] n [Date: 1400 1500; : Middle Dutch; Origin: Middle Low German sode] 1.) BrE informal not polite a very offensive word for someone, especially a man, who you think is stupid or annoying ▪ Get up, you lazy sod! 2.) be a sod BrE… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• sod — I UK [sɒd] / US [sɑd] noun Word forms sod : singular sod plural sods 1) [countable] British impolite a word for someone who you dislike or who annoys you The silly sod forgot to tell them. 2) [countable] British impolite used for describing… …   English dictionary

• sod * — Noun. 1. A contemptible or objectionable person. 2. A pitiable person. E.g. He s just had his car stolen and his wife has just run off with the milkman, the poor sod. This use is also be found with the expressions poor bastard and poor bugger . 3 …   English slang and colloquialisms

• sod — 1. noun a) That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward. The landscapers rolled sod onto the bare earth and made a presentable lawn by nightfall. b) Turf grown and… …   Wiktionary

• sod — I. n British 1a. an unpleasant person (of either sex, but more often male). The word often implies unfair or cruel behaviour on the part of the person described. I m sorry I was such a sod to you. 1b. an individual. Like bugger, the term is used… …   Contemporary slang

• put under the sod —    dead    And presumably buried:     Charlie, who was put under the sod, poor chap, a year come Michaelmas... (Pease, 1894)    To put underground is to kill:     If you don t keep quiet for ten minutes, I ll put you underground too. (G. Greene,… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

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