circling the drain
v.— «Other interesting medical slang: Circling the drain—crashing —coding——talkin’ to God——a blue bloater—vagaling out—-:).» —“sleepless in Baltimore” by Tam W ms.roboto (Ohio) Mar. 3, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Language is always evolving, and that’s also true for American Sign Language. A century ago, the sign for “telephone” was one fist below your mouth and the other at your ear, as if you’re holding an old-fashioned candlestick...
Brittany in Green Coast Springs, Florida, says that when she was grumpy or irritated as a child, her mother would say a phrase that sounded like Don’t be such a scooch. This bit of Italian-American slang, often rendered as skutch, denotes a “pest”...