phoning it in

Many nouns can be verbed while some it seems cannot. You can salt your soup, comb your hair, brush your teeth, iron your shirt and then button it. Lace your boots. Buckle your belt. Hammer a nail, shovel the snow, water the garden. In fact, you can plow, hoe, rake, and seed it. On the way into the club you might get carded, later on in the parking lot you might get knifed. Seat yourself, chair the meeting, pen the notes. Oh. And paper the walls and carpet the floor. But nobody ever says they’re going to broom the porch.