parentals

parentals

slang One's parents. I'll have to check with my parentals if I can borrow the car for the evening. A: "Hopefully the parentals will be asleep by the time we get back." B: "Don't call them your parentals, dude. You sound like a dweeb."
See also: parental
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (one's) old man
  • (one's) old lady
  • be in the Land of Nod
  • in the Land of Nod
  • catch flies
  • be dead on (one's) feet
  • dead asleep
  • dead on feet
  • dead on one's feet
  • dead on your feet
References in periodicals archive
DITCHING the parentals and living with your mates - it's a cunning plan that's been years in the making.
DITCHING the parentals and living [...]
He captioned the picture as "Happy Anniversary to the parentals! Love you both eternally.
Abhishek Bachchan wishes parents Big B, Jaya Bachchan on their wedding anniversary
'Cacula-1' and 'Cacula-3' are local hybrids obtained from a crossing involving 'Clementine' and 'Cravo' as parentals, performed by Prof.
Plant growth, yield and fruit quality of Clementine mandarin selections under subtropical climate in Brazil/Desenvolvimento, producao e qualidade de frutos de selecoes de tangerineira Clementina sob clima subtropical no Brasil
The highly anticipated 3-day conference will gather the growing hpapi community, filled with industry thought leaders and drug development experts involved in: cross contamination, manufacturing, containment design, liquid and parentals, R&D and pharmaceutical process development.
SMi's 2nd Annual Highly Potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Conference - Under 1 Week Left
The self-incompatibility registered in species is probably due to the rejection process of post-zygotic embryogenesis (GIBBS; OLIVEIRA; BIANCHI, 1999), that eliminates certain genes with high compatibility between parentals.
GENETIC DIVERSITY AND POPULATION STRUCTURE OF JATOBA: A SPECIES WITH ECONOMIC POTENTIAL FOR THE AMAZON REGION/DIVERSIDADE GENETICA E ESTRUTURA POPULACIONAL DE JATOBA: UMA ESPECIE COM POTENCIAL ECONOMICO PARA A AMAZONIA
My Tom, Aaron, Emily, sibs, and parentals, are the real reason for Keeping me from being that health care policy bore.
Don Bloch Award Acceptance Speech: 2017
Yield and lodging resistance traits of LRC1, its parentals (smosl and ST-4) and T65 (original strain of smosl) (a) Gross morphology of T65, smosl, ST-4, and LRC1 at 30 days after heading.
Engineering the lodging resistance mechanism of post-green revolution rice to meet future demands
Sneakers, satellites, and parentals: polymorphic mating strategies in North American sunfishes.
Sex determination in bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus: Effect of temperature on sex ratio of four geographic strains
Both phenotypes are males that mature at young ages--age-2 or age-3--compared to typical males ("parentals") that mature at age-7.
Managing bluegills: new thinking new strategies
Me and Big Bro Fred (along with our parentals, I might add) were completely swept off our feet by the film of a young lion called Sirga who greets the man who freed and raised her every morning with the biggest big cat cuddle you're ever likely to see.
I NOW KNOW..
Worthy of note is the fact that inducing mutation that will lead to improve agronomical traits is one thing and it is yet another for the introgression of economic traits from parentals to the mutants in the subsequent generations to be favourable.
Optimizing induced mutation technique for the improvement of agronomic traits in pigeon pea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] landraces/Otimizacao tecnica de inducao de mutacao para a melhoria de caracteristicas agronomicas em guandu [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] Landraces
Variability in Fatty Acid and Triacylglycerol Composition of the Oil of Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) Hybrids and Their Parentals. Journal of Food Chemistry.
Thermogenics: a systematic review about the use of coconut oil, safflower oil and CLA/Termogenicos: uma revisao sistematica sobre o uso de oleo de coco, oleo de cartamo e cla
Although there are various breeding strategies, which range from population breeding to the creation and selection of haploids for the synthesis of lines, the choices of parentals and cross designs (factorial, diallels, triallels, or tetra-allels) are key issues to obtain high performance hybrids.
Prediction of maize single cross hybrids using the total effects of associated markers approach assessed by cross-validation and regional trials
One of the most exciting challenges when dealing with hybrids occurs when one (or both) of the parentals has disappeared from nature or it has never been collected.
Profundizando en la evolucion de los helechos: un enfoque mecanicista a los principales conceptos y tecnicas de estudio