grease spot
English
editNoun
editgrease spot (plural grease spots)
- (informal) A minute remnant, humorously the only distinguishable remains of an antagonist after a fight.
- 1866, Israel Gibbons, Crescent-shine, page 108:
- If you'd come at me with even numbers, I wouldn't leave a grease spot of you.
- Quoted in 2011, Thomas Christie, Hampton Smith, Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie (page 242)
- [W]hole Brigades of theirs were "wiped out," there being hardly a grease spot left of the Kentucky Brigade, which were the ones I saw fight.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see grease, spot.
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary