A: Why would they eighty-six the plans for renovations? The building is practically falling apart.

B: I guess they simply don’t have the money to do it.

Note: Eighty-six is slang meaning “to throw out,” “to get rid of,” or “to refuse service to.” It comes from 1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out. There is varying anecdotal evidence about why the term eighty-six was used, but the most common theory is that it is rhyming slang for “nix.” It later evolved into a code that restaurants and bars used when they wanted to cut someone off, because they were rude, broke or drunk, as in “86 that chump at the end of the bar.”