slime ball

slime ball

One whose behavior offends or repulses others. I can't believe how poorly he treated that waitress. What a slime ball!
See also: ball, slime

slimeball

An offensive, detestable, repellent person, especially one who does unscrupulous or immoral things. My last boss was a total slimeball, making all sorts of shady deals to skim a bit of extra profit for herself. That slime ball defrauded his clients for millions of dollars. They ought to lock him up and throw away the key.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • put some reverse English on it
  • in play
  • in/out of play
  • have a ball
  • advance the ball
  • v-ball
  • bounce (something) back and forth
  • bounce back and forth
  • kick (something) into touch
  • kick something into touch
References in periodicals archive
"Let's get down to the business of offending local councillors, dignitaries and meddlesome ratbags plus ruining the trade of slime ball lying estate agents," they encourage.
"Slime ball No2 #wes #LoveIsland gets rejected by the new girl, goes back to a dead cert," said another.
"Political Power: James Comey," is a 24-page comic that gives readers the "origin story" of the man Trump recently blasted as an "untruthful slime ball" and "LEAKER & LIAR." The book, published by TidalWave Comics, was written by Michael Frizell, drawn by Joe Paradise, and features cover art by artist Pablo Martinena.
For his part, Trump has repeatedly hurled insulting tweets at Comey, such as calling him a "slime ball," in the run-up to the release of his book, challenging accusations made in the book and the author's integrity.
He called Comey a "weak and untruthful slime ball" and, as has happened before, his attack on the author of an unflattering book helped propel it to the top of the best-seller list before it was officially released.
'He [Comey] is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible director of the FBI.
WASHINGTON, April 13 (KUNA) -- Reacting Friday to excerpts from the new book by former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey, US President Donald Trump tweeted that Comey was a "weak and untruthful slime ball" who deserved to be fired "for the terrible job he did." "It was my great honor to fire James Comey!" Trump tweeted.
Trump reportedly had meetings with Deputy AG Rosenstein yesterday and called former FBI chief Comey "a leaker, liar and untruthful slime ball" on Twitter earlier, in a sign of increasing frustration with the Russian investigation and in response to Comey's memoir comparing Trump to a "mafia boss." The Dow is 146-points firmer, S&P is up 15-points and NASDAQ is up 32-points in pre-market trade.
Here, Christopher Enns as a slime ball Basilio was at his remarkable best.
"What has come out is that he [Evans] is a total and utter slime ball with no respect for women."
Narrated by Deutsche Bank hotshot Jared Venett (Gosling) who honestly acknowledges he's a money-loving slime ball, we follow the "desperate" struggles of a group of intelligent men as they invest against the mortgage bonds believing that they are graded far below their true value by the rating agencies and the banks.
You'd think Mr Slime Ball would get the message, especially when I say, "Don't look at me, it's the missus that's paying for it." But he carries on with his salesman gobbledegook at me.
Asians are very superstitious about death; you can't mention it during a conversation and you always have to speak good about the departed even if he was the worst slime ball ever.
The articles include the Olympiad experience; Newton's second law of motion using fan carts; methane can explosion; boiling water; metric versus imperial and slime ball by CSIRO.
SPACE CHIMPS 2: ZARTOG STRIKES BACK 3D (U) Having freed Planet Malgor from the tyranny of the slime ball Zartog, the hairy heroes must face their old foe once again.