frail

Related to frail: frail elderly

frail

A woman. The phrase comes from rhyming slang in which "frail frame" rhymes with "dame." Look at that frail, walking in here like she owns the place.

twist

slang A girl or woman. From rhyming slang, in which "twist" is short for "twist and twirl," which rhymes with "girl." Tommy's spending all his time with his new twist. He never comes around to see us anymore.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

twist

and frail
n. a girl; a woman. (Underworld. Possibly rhyming slang twist and twirl = girl and frail frame = dame. Detective novels and movies.) This good-looking twist comes over to the table and asks Lefty if he’d like to dance. I’ll shoot the frail if you don’t hand it over!

frail

verb
See twist
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

twist

/wrap around (one's) little finger
To dominate utterly and effortlessly.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • a Captain Cook
  • captain
  • iron poof
  • have a butcher's
  • have/take a butcher's
  • butcher
  • ginger beer
  • Brahms and Liszt
  • half-inch
  • north and south
References in periodicals archive
It sounds ideal: build into senior living facilities the necessities and amenities that might keep ill or increasingly frail residents in those spaces a bit longer.
Most importantly, benefits were equivalent among frail and non-frail participants suggesting that there is't never too late to engage in exercise intervention programs.
Speaking on the club website Frail said: "I'm really excited to be given this opportunity at Celtic.
But Frail believes worrying too much about the ex-Chelsea hitman would leave space for others to exploit - such as Coventry's Aron Gunnarsson or Reggina's Emil Hallfredsson.
"His chances just aren't coming and I'm sure he'd say he's frustrated," Frail said.
The frail widow, who had a history of medical problems, died from pneumonia months later, on September 24, after spending her 91st birthday in hospital.
We designed this study to determine the discriminative power of two frequently used scales, namely the FFI and FRAIL scale, to assess their effectiveness in predicting mortality in the Turkish community-dwelling older people.
(4,18-20) More recently the use of routine PC electronic health record data has been used in the development and validation of an electronic frailty index to identify potentially frail patients.
Frail participants were 38 per cent less likely to be listed for transplantation, had a nearly twofold increased risk of dying while on the transplant waitlist mortality, and underwent transplantation at a 35 per cent lower rate than non-frail participants.
The nazim directed the relevant authorities to mark frail animals and banned their sale.
After two years, people who were not frail at the start of the study were no less likely to become frail with exercise than without it, the study found.
Sedentary Behavior Increases Risk of Death for Frail Elders.
One effect of the aging population is an increase in the number of frail older adults.