Airline Pilot April 1995, by F/O Darrell Weslander (UPS) plus a few of my own.

One important aspect of aviation is the special terminology. You don’t learn this in ground school, and very little is written in the flight manual. Yet we pick up the jargon of the airways.

The phrases become second nature to us and often to our families. But to our neighbors, it can sound like another language. While other professions have unique nomenclature, I think aviators take great pleasure in using catch phrases known only to fellow pilots.

Keep the shiny side up—Keep the dirty side down---
Fly straight at level (not inverted) .

Make a short approach---
Keep the approach pattern close to the runway.

Are you red-eye?---
Are you ready. Infers ready late at night.

Tally ho—
Air traffic in sight.

No joy---
Don’t have air traffic in sight.

Put a log in the fire---
Warm up the cockpit or cabin.

Pull the chocks---
Ready depart the gate, pull the blocks of wood under the airplanes wheels.

My fun meter is pegged---
We’re having fun now.

Localizer alive! and/or Glideslope alive!---

Lost an engine---
Had to shut down an engine or an engine quit.

Hold short---
Do not taxi onto a runway or taxiway.

Had to go missed---
Made a missed approach or go-around.

Position and hold---
Taxi onto the runway and get ready for takeoff but do not takeoff.

Shoot an approach---
Make an approach to a runway using radio guidance instead of outside visual references.

Soup or Pea Soup---
Overcast weather or fog.

Was that for us?---

Case break---
          Course indicator starts to move.

Light the fires---
           Start the engines.

WOXOF---
           Indefinite ceiling zero, sky obscured, visibility zero, fog. (bad flying weather for sure)

Great day for ducks---
          Really foggy.

Turn the tuna---
          Give the passengers an announcement from the cockpit.

Flying side saddle, The plumber, Mario---
          The flight engineer.

The panel---
          The flight engineers work station.

Skippy---
         The junior crewmember.

George---
         The auto-pilot.

Wheels in the well---
          The landing gear is up.

Dangle the Dunlops---
          Extend the landing gear.

Get the roller skates, rollers up or rollers down---
Extend or retract the landing gear.

Put out the boards---
          Extend the speed brakes.

Close the barn doors---
          Bring the wing flaps up.

Firewall power---
         Maximum engine power.

Glareshield---
          Airplane dashboard.

Pranger or Pranged it in---
          A hard landing.

A greaser---
           A smooth landing.

Bounces---
           Touch-and-go landings.

Kerosene---Go juice---Dinosaur juice---Push-o-lean---
            Fuel

Whiz wheel---
            Circular flight computer (pilots version of a slide rule).

Oh-dark-thirty---
            Middle of the night or very early morning.

Commuter puke---
            Regional airline pilot.

Freight dog----
            Cargo pilots.

Corporate guy---
            Pilot that flys for a corporate flight department.

Bush pilot---
 A pilot flying into small often unpaved landing strips with little or no navigation aids.
 
Used the "auger-in" checklist---
           Crashed.

Bought the farm---
           Died in a crash.

Joined the Mile High Club---
Did IT in an airplane.
 
Prop Wash---
No it doesn't mean get a bucket of soapy water. It's the air behind a running propeller.
 
Jet Bridge---
The covered walkway from the terminal building to the airplane.
 
Air Stairs---
The stairs used to get into an airplaner.
 
Flight Line---
The operations area on the ramp outside the terminal building.