To remedy your ignorance of the speach of ordinary people, may I recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/American-Slang-Dictionary-Richard-Spears/dp/0071461086
This one's on-line:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/Slang/
Then there;s this, only A-G:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1283(199621)71%3A1%3C103%3AMNWOAS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
Since you live in New York you might find this one useful:
"Flies" refers to "agreements" not to the parties with whom you agree, but you can say what you like. With your attitude you will be dismissed as an annoying crank.
--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> >
> >I'm a law professor at a fourth tier law school.
> And
> >back where I grew up in Virginia, people who no
> >education at all used to say that you'd catch more
> >flies with honey than with vinegar. ...
> >But let's agree on on this: you
> >make you no-compromise demands for total submission
> >from potential coalition partnrs, and I will meet
> them
> >part way. Report back in five years about how
> >successful you've been and I will do the same.
>
> Fine. I must warn you in advance that I shall
> inform your potential
> coalition partners that you view them as "flies."
>
> Actually, I envy your fund of folk wisdom.
> Unfortunately, I grew up in
> Massachusetts, where a robust public school system
> ensured there were few
> people with "no education at all," so I'm deficient
> in colorful
> colloquialisms.
>
> Carl
>
>
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