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Definitions by Uncle Dimma

Milking the cash cow 

Abusing the generous welfare state in Canada or the United States of America for your own personal gain.
If you have a business outside north America and you still live on welfare here in north America, you have a morality problem. Stop milking the cash cow.

Slim down x 

Get rid of all the useless, meaningless bureaucrats in your company or organization in order to streamline your operations.
Canadian civil service needs to slim down x and hire more social workers
Slim down x by Uncle Dimma August 22, 2023

Even blind squirrels sometimes get a nut 

Another way of saying, Even people who get most things wrong in their lives, sometimes get something right
The saying even blind squirrels sometimes get a nut can apply to tv political pundits lying to you all the time who unintentionally accidentally once in a blue moon say something politically true.

Ad hominem campaign 

When you run your political campaign based solely on -false and undeserved- ad hominem attacks of your political opponents and their/or their families.
The 2024 race between Trump and Biden is shaping up to be an ad hominem campaign- on both sides mind you.
The term TLD was used by Laura Ingraham on Aug 2 2023.
TLD by Uncle Dimma August 2, 2023
News detox. Period. Not just a fox detox.
Newsdox is a very useful concept for your mental health.
Newsdox by Uncle Dimma July 3, 2023
A combo of the words news and detox. When you take a news detox, ie no news in any way shape or form for you.
Newstox is very serious; it includes no radio, no TV news, no newspapers, no Facebook news, no news in any way shape or form. You can't even read the bbc news app on your phone.
Newstox by Uncle Dimma June 26, 2023