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curly dirt

Clumps of dust. Please dust this room, and be sure to get the curly dirt that's gathered under the couch.
See also: curly, dirt

slut's wool

vulgar slang A cluster of dust and dirt. Can you believe that people used to call dust bunnies "slut's wool"?
See also: wool
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

curly dirt

 and house moss; slut's wool
puffs of dirt and dust. How long has it been since you swept under this bed? There's a mountain of curly dirt under here! No one's been in this room for an age. Look at all the cobwebs and curly dirt. She was a terrible housekeeper. House moss collected in all the corners of her rooms.
See also: curly, dirt
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • curly
  • curly dirt
  • dust off
  • dust someone off
  • dust up
  • dust-up
  • dust bunny
  • dust kitten
  • dicky dirt
References in periodicals archive
Slut Walks recognise women's rights including personal choices
"Why is it that when girls have lots of sex they're sluts, but when guys have it, they're studs?" Francisco asks.
We who are and historically have been the "sluts" from whom traffickers, pimps, and other "authorities" of the global corporate sex trade realize $20 billion in earnings annually cannot, with a clear conscience, accept the term in reference to ourselves and our struggle against sexual violence and for women's liberation.
Michael Sanguinetti remarked to a group of students at a safety seminar that women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be raped.
The movement began after a police officer, Michael Sanguinetti, made a remark to a group of students saying "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised."
Slut Walks started in January after an outcry over the comments made by PC Michael Sanguinetti as he was addressing a group of students at a personal security class.
The movement began in Canada in April after Toronto policeman Michael Sanguinetti said: "Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised."
She turned out to be Voluptua, a member of the Satanic Sluts, a group which, among other things, has produced a DVD called The Black Order Cometh, a horror flick featuring bondage and bloodletting.
the woman who likes it when her boyfriend calls her a "slut," Midori says.
Why did we so effortlessly and automatically create a "slut," almost as if she were creating us?
This was a promise that delivered less than it suggested, for Jockey Slut is an alternative music magazine that makes the NME look like a local parish pamphlet.
In 1997, in Seventeen magazine, Tanenbaum, a journalist, wrote about her experiences of being labeled a slut in high school.
The problem with Roiphe and the sisterhood of sluts is that they lack historical perspective.
'Thank you Jetstar, for slut shaming me and then offering me this in return,' she said.
AMANDA Knox has blasted police and prosecutors for portraying her as a "slut" to secure a conviction.