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Tarheel

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Two things. One, do you know what a hand job is? Two, why do you waste your time browsing the Urban Dictionary?
:?:

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I don't understand it

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I don't understand it at all.
 
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It seems that Urban Dictionary is full of sexual expressions not that useful. Could you recommend a good website for useful idioms and slang?

Two things. One, do you know what a hand job is? Two, why do waste your time browsing the Urban Dictionary?
:?:

P.S. Say:

I don't understand it

Or:

I don't understand it at all.
 

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I'll leave it to you to figure out the sexual reference in 'hand job' (check the link within urban dictionary), but the idea here is a play on words between 'job' and 'career'.

It plays upon the exaggerated length - this job is taking so long it has become a career (i.e. something long-term versus something short).

I suppose you could also read into it overtones of professionalism, etc., for it to become a 'career'.
 

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Could you recommend a good website for useful idioms and slang?
Click on Reference near the top of this page and then IDIOMS.

Forget about slang until you have achieved a greater mastery of standard English.
 
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