Wordwizard

Most that spring to mind aren't specific to the situation that you describe. They are more generic terms describing someone being bullied by another person, without regard to their gender or their relationship to each other...badgered, browbeaten, coerced, dominated, intimidated. There are two that ...

They both sound a bit formal. You're more likely to hear "you're almost on empty/almost on E". I don't think a native speaker would reference the needle.

Steve, there's probably too many to list. Many of the words or phrases can also be used to describe other types of victories...in an argument, in a sporting contest, in a war, etc. A common one used to describe besting someone in a physical altercation is to "beat someone up". "Kicking someone's ass...

I doubt you’ll get a definitive answer on that one. There seems to be a lot of folks trying to track the origin down and as many different theories as there are researchers. Most of the theories sound like complete cack. I don’t listen to rap and had never heard the North/South Carolina connection. ...

As kids, we used "beeswax" as a substitute word for business...
"Mind your own beeswax!" I'm not even sure why we needed a euphemism to soften "business".

That phrase is a new one, for me. I've heard of a "road to Damascus" moment, or turn-around or decision. A Damascene conversion is easy enough to figure out but I probably would have never deciphered a "Pauline conversion"...

The "go-to" phrase on our local news stations seems to be "traffic congestion". They talk of certain areas of the city that are congested. Another phrase is "heavy traffic". When traffic is moving slowly because of volume (usually the morning commute to work or the evening return from work) it can b...

"Husky", used to describe a voice, can also be a compliment. Oddly, it's a quality that seems sexy or desirable to some people. You are definitely looking for "hoarse" or "raspy" in your example.

It's easier to imagine that there is no connection when you take the time to look it up. Apparently, "on the fly" is another baseball idiom and "winging it" has its origin in the theatre. Actors who learned their lines while standing in the wings, waiting to go on stage, were just "winging it".

A similar phrase, used in my neck of the woods is "winging it". To "wing it" is to do something without practice or preperation...to ad lib. This is very close to how I interpret "on the fly". It seems hard to imagine there is not a connection between winging and flying.

I've never heard it used that way, either. Are you sure you don't mean "on the double"? That means to do something in a hurry. I would not say that to a waiter...I suspect it might have the opposite effect. A more polite version might get your desired result : "I would appreciate it if you could hur...

We call that type of seat a "recliner". That bottom part is known as the footrest or leg rest.

"Windbag" is the closest noun I can think of, although it (and it's counterparts gasbag, blowhard, bloviator?) are more about someone who speaks at great length but really says little, of substance. There are a lot of humorous descriptions for the person you refer to, that follow the same format as ...

I've always pronounced the name of the musical instrument as "vee ola" but I've known two women with that name and both pronounced their names as "Vye ola".

I've never seen that before. I thought it looked a bit like candy floss so I Googled "pork floss"...Bang! From Wiki: Rousong (pronounced [ɻôusʊ́ŋ]; Chinese: 肉鬆; Cantonese Yale: yuk6 sung1), also known as meat wool, meat floss, pork floss, beef floss, abon, pork sung or yuk sung, is a dried meat prod...