Alf Vocabulary s3 e25

Alf s3 e25 called Shake, Rattle and Roll. Alf discovers that we live on a planet with a red-hot core inside. A good vocabulary for spoken about dangerous of life in English.
Phrases
- White-hot tentacles of doom spit fire.
- tentacles - a slender, flexible limb or appendage in an animal, especially around the mouth of an invertebrate, used for grasping or moving about, or bearing sense organs
- This may stagger your imagination a whit...
- stagger - waver in purpose; hesitate
- whit - a very small part or amount
- Kate, the short strokes, please?
- the short strokes - adjective. down to the short strokes. (idiomatic) In the final steps or decisive phase of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious
- Willie, get the ledger.
- ledger - a book or other collection of financial accounts
- Does she need comforting?
- comforting - giving consolation for grief or anxiety; soothing
- Is this structural?
- structural - bearing wall in that context
- I'm just traumatized.
- traumatize - subject to lasting shock as a result of a disturbing experience or physical injury
- ...and swallowed you screaming into the fiery bowels of the earth?
- the bowel of - the deepest inner parts or areas of (something)
- Padlock foodstuffs.
- padlock - a detachable lock hanging by a pivoted hook on the object fastened
- Restock foodstuff.
- restock - replenish (a store) with fresh stock or supplies
- foodstuff - a substance suitable for consumption as food
- Witty, urbane Lynn.
- urbane - (of a person, especially a man) courteous and refined in manner
- Or an avalanche, or a firestorm.
- avalanche - a mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside
- Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we croak.
- croak - (informal) die; (main) a sound resembling a croak
- It's just an expression, Brian, albeit a mangled one.
- mangle - destroy or severely damage by tearing or crushing
- Not unlike a goiter.
- goiter - a swelling of the neck resulting from enlargement of the thyroid gland
- All right, a bunion.
- bunion - a painful swelling on the first joint of the big toe
- How many temblors will it take for you to see the light?
- temblor - an earthquake
- I'm more introspective than you.
- introspective - people who spend a lot of time examining their own thoughts, ideas, and feelings
- Because life is like death row...
- death row - a prison block or section for those sentenced to death
- ...and every day you live is a stay of execution.
- stay of execution - a delay in carrying out a court order
- ...choke on your dinner, fall down the stairs...
- choke - (of a person or animal) have severe difficulty in breathing because of a constricted or obstructed throat or a lack of air
- ...trip over the dog, accidentally flush yourself down...
- trip over - to stumble
- flush - cleanse (something, especially a toilet) by causing large quantities of water to pass through it
- Can you throw a little something in for my chiropractor?
- chiropractor - a person who treats injuries by chiropractic; manual therapist