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What in tarnation!?

An exclamatory phrase often utilized by those originating in the Southern United States, often having equivalence to "What the heck?"
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Dog zankation 

When you spend all days before exams in doing nothing and the night before the exam you decide to study all lectures
I have an exam tomorrow. I’m in dog zankation mood now.
Dog zankation by Ayten Ahmed February 24, 2021

Dog’s Zankation Syndrome 

It is a syndrome that affects students and it means that the student studies what has been studied in three or four months just few hours before the exam. This syndrome begins one or two days before the exam or in any means of transport while the student is literally on his way to sit for the exam.
Symptoms are “laughing for no reason accompanied by crying and increased hunger and thirst”..
( polyphagia , polydipsia , severe psychosis ).
The treatment usually consists of calming down the student and reminding him that the world is at the end a meter by meter.
(Doctors recommend serving him food he likes along with mint tea).
Friend: Do you want to hung out later?

Student: I can’t! I have an exam tomorrow! Just pray I survive this Dog’s zankation syndrome.
a fancy way of saying extortion or getting something using force or threat.
Government: Taxation is the law, so give us money or be thrown in a cage.
Taxation by Truth Tree December 12, 2019
Guy1: man it’s tax season

Guy2: taxation is theft
taxation by Displaced Yinzer October 15, 2017

tardation 

n. The set of all things which are retarded. Used as part of an epithet when one observes something retarded going on.
What in tardation is going on in here??!?!
tardation by SkidMarkyMark June 11, 2006