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turning off the faucets

abruptly ending financial contributions; to financially ostracize; the stopping of monetary flow. Often used as a serious warning in a quid pro quo situation.

phrase; idiom

The first recorded usage of the viral phrase 'turning off the faucets' was in 2024 by Nevin Shapiro during a Momentum Podcast episode. “I said Coach, if that kid don’t see the field I’m turning off the faucets”, for the purpose of clearly and definitively communicating to Larry Coker, that all funding to the Miami Hurricane football program will immediately come to a halt if he didn’t start then freshman Devin “Hurricane” Hester for subsequent games of the 2003 season. It’s an effective way for one to convey the gravity and seriousness of a situation involving money in a not so subtle yet sophisticated manner.
"If you don't meet the deadline, I'm turning off the faucets on this project."
“If you don’t have a 3.5 GPA by the end of the semester I’m turning off the faucets!”
“Bro she broke up with you as soon as you turned the faucets off, she's a gold digger!”
by NCAA_D1 June 13, 2024
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Twisting One Off

Friend: What are you up to today?
Man: Not much, just sitting here twisting one off.
by EldonTKD August 9, 2021
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Rig Off

A huge gathering of people with huge, lifted cars or trucks who compete in numerous events to show off their big rig.
“yo dude are you going to the rig off? you’ve got a nice looking rig there.”

yeah bro i am. she’s pretty mint.”
by epic miracle September 18, 2018
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Peruvian Spin-off

When your partner is riding your penis and your buddy spins the recipient counter clockwise creating upward lift and the recipient spins off the penis.
"Oh yeah me and my mates had a few drinks and took this girl home for a Peruvian spin-off"
by Mr Mcdonald March 10, 2017
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off wall

To continue a public Facebook conversation privately through IM.
"As the conversation became more intimate, we decided to take it off wall."
by wackyjacky534 February 28, 2015
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off the coast

to get so excited on the plane the captain is forced to do an emergency landing on an oil rig in the atlantic ocean.
"where the hell are you?"
"yeah so we had to do an emergency landing and I am currently sunbathing on some oily platform off the coast."
by Krkič April 28, 2019
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get off scot-free

What da lecherous ex-Prez Willie C. managed to do **twice over** in the Monica Blewinsky case --- first, he was able to delightedly "get off" from Miss L's huge luscious smoochy lips' lovingly pleasuring his crooked wiener. And then when said sordid tryst "came back to haunt him" with a Congressional trial, he was able to "get off" without punishment, even though he obviously had done everything he'd been accused of. He was even able to keep his marriage intact.
I as a "common citizen" can get jailed for merely stealing a pack of gum, yet Bill Clinton didn't even get a slap on da wrist for majorly dallying with his intern (and who knows how many other women during his lifetime!), and he was a married man, to boot --- he could totally get off scot-free merely because he was da President at da time! What kind of convoluted nonsense --- not to mention an awful role-model for our nation's raging-hormones-steeped youth --- is THAT???
by QuacksO July 9, 2019
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