BlastFurnace's definitions
A type of labor action, somewhere between normal working conditions and a strike, where workers will do only what the collective bargaining agreement requires them to do, and nothing more, such as refusing to work overtime. It is a pressure tactic, designed to get an employer back to the bargaining table to hammer out a new contract acceptable to the employees. Also known as quiet quitting.
When teachers were not getting what they were asking for during contract talks, they went on work-to-rule, suspending extracurricular activities and after class student meetings.
by BlastFurnace May 23, 2025
Get the work-to-rulemug. A Canadian expression that refers to a coffee with two cream and two sugar. Usually associated with Tim Hortons, but the phrase can be used at any restaurant that serves coffee.
The bus driver stopped his full to capacity vehicle, in the middle of a cold day, so he could run into a Tim Hortons to get a double double.
by BlastFurnace March 11, 2025
Get the double doublemug. A botched attempt by former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien in late 2002, demanding evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"Well, I don't know ... a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's been proven."
by BlastFurnace February 17, 2024
Get the Proof is a proofmug. A merger of the words "racially" and "marginalized." Refers to someone who is pushed to the fringes of society because of his or her race.
At a debate, one of the participants refused to acknowledge his opponent came from a racialized community, saying instead that racism was a state of mind and not real.
by BlastFurnace September 19, 2023
Get the Racializedmug. A minimum security prison with living conditions more lax than other minimum security prisons. These may include such things as a golf course, a horse farm, or a bowling alley, and allowing prisoners their own lock and key for their more comfortable than usual "cells."
Families of the victims of a serial sex killer were outraged he was transferred to Club Fed, even though he provided prison officials with information about several other at large sex offenders.
by BlastFurnace August 1, 2025
Get the Club Fedmug. Wife: "It took you THIS long to get home. Do you know what time it is?"
Husband: "Five-ish?"
Wife: "No. Seven-ish!"
Husband: "Five-ish?"
Wife: "No. Seven-ish!"
by BlastFurnace April 21, 2025
Get the -ishmug. An approximate way of doing something based on presumptions rather than fact. Contrary to popular belief, the idea the law once allowed a husband to beat his wife as long as the device was no thicker than his thumb is false, as such assaults were outlawed for centuries in common law, although the ban wasn't generally codified in written law until the 1980s.
A driver kept going 5 mph over the speed limit, thinking the police had a rule of thumb that it was a waste of time to give out a ticket to anyone going anything lower than that.
by BlastFurnace February 27, 2025
Get the Rule of thumbmug.