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I'm attracted to spicy language: particularly gritty, pithy sayings such as “drop it like it’s hot.” But even with the assistance of Urban Dictionary, I'm afraid that I may use it incorrectly and divulge my otherwise secret middle-aged-suburban-mother identity.   Does anyone have any good example situations in which this expression would be appropriate, or better still, complete sentences that I can model?    I will deduct points from your score if you have to begin the sentence with, “Yo! Bitches!” to make it work.   I don’t like that, or gangsta crap in general. But I do like the sound of the expression itself and so I want to drop it like it’s hot into my everyday speech. For what it's worth, that rates a C+ for effort.

me·tath·e·sis (mĭ-tăth'ĭ-sĭs) Transposition within a word of letters, sounds, or syllables, as in the change from Old English brid to modern English bird or in the confusion of modren for modern. My youngest and I are reading Ivanhoe together.  This usually takes the form of two books, one blanket, and one reader - we take turns.  More recently, we've been listening to the Librivox recordings ( thanks, Rachel ) and reading along with the speaker, who, so far, has been pretty good. We stop the computer (or iPod) whenever either of us has a point to make, or a question to ask.  It's been really enjoyable for us both. Today, I wanted to know a little more about a place, Ashby de la Zouch , mentioned in Ivanhoe  (not the least of which was its pronunciation: zeush, IPA  /ˈzuːʃ/).  In addition to information about the field where the Disinherited Knight's first tournament occurred, I discovered that Sir Walter Scott was responsible for the n...