Every other month
Except it’s misused so frequently that at some point the dictionary decided to add twice monthly as an alternate definition. 
Paychecks are generally either semi-monthly (24 a year) or biweekly (26 a year).
Driving around yesterday in southeast Wisconsin, I saw a number of Kansas City Chiefs signs, which made me wonder:
How many Kansas City Chiefs fans around the nation were New England Patriots fans just 5 years ago?
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I mean, I do agree with your interpretation, but it is slightly odd to use “up” to refer to making the house cooler.
Ok, now this thread is starting to trigger me. What you mean is “Turn the thermostat that controls the A/C warmer”
Uh, I’m pretty sure that’s implied. I mean where does it end?
Press the button on the thermostat that controls the A/C?
Press the button that causes a computer signal to be sent to the thermostat that controls the A/C?
Press the button to stir the electrons in the thermostat that sends a signal through a wire to the A/C that triggers a mechanical reaction to compress less air to make it warmer?
I mean you can get pretty pedantic if you want to. “Turn the A/C warmer” is pretty clear.
Turn a Google nest? Turn one of those old school thermostats with the mercury bulb in it?
I’m more use to using the phrase of “crank up the AC” to indicate to make the air temp cooler; but agree that “turn the AC up” to indicate a desire to increase its effect. And “turn down the AC” to mean lessen its effect.
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I mean, am I being pedantic?
The AC has two states. On or off. Do I have the ability to turn my AC on? Technically no. I don’t turn the AC on, the thermostat does.
Yes, I am being pedantic.
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Maybe “Make it colder” or “Make it warmer”
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Better yet, just passive aggressively say “I’m hot” and hope he gets the hint and adjusts the thermostat.
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Speaking of AC, it is chilly out today!!! Gonna go with long pants and a fleece hoodie!!
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My standard response when my wife says that is the Han Solo. I know.
Have you ever heard of a scenario where someone was hand picked for a posted job, but they interview people for it anyway because employment laws, but one of those interviewees was so wow-ing that that person actually got the job over the hand-chosen heir apparent?
Not quite, but I’ve been in a scenario where the powers that be knew who they wanted to hire before they started interviewing and then they were so blown away by another candidate that they ended up hiring both.
I’ve been on the interviewer side of a similar situation and we ended up hiring the other guy for a similar but different role a few months later.
I’m out in the country, and I heard a conversation as a group was passing by us where a woman described herself as “stove up”. I haven’t heard that one for a long time.
Do you know that expression?
Is she full of gas? Super hot? Baked (as in high)?
Nope… never heard it.
Some old language unrelated to the appliance. In this case stove is the past participle of stave.
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Well when you put it that way, it makes total sense, as I can barely get through a sentence without using the word stave.
I have never heard of stave as a noun, which is apparently the origin of this saying. Pretty obscure imo.
never thought of the root, always felt it was like Heated Up, energized, in a negative way