When your teacher takes between 5-14 minutes to arrive at the classroom, with the students locked out of said room.
by Lambda_BM November 15, 2019
Get the Pulling a Piecykmug. by tutyfrutybuty March 4, 2011
Get the pulled a "verba"mug. The act of shifting blame to, asking your, or allowing your subordinate to take blame. Much like what happened with reagan and oliver north.
And possibly pardoning or rehiring the individual later.
And possibly pardoning or rehiring the individual later.
by Theamazinggeek May 7, 2018
Get the pulled a reaganmug. A social phenomenon in which individuals or groups who have successfully advanced in status, wealth, or opportunity then act to block others from accessing the same path upward.
Key Features:
Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.
Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).
Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.
Key Features:
Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.
Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).
Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.
1. After becoming wealthy through public education, the politician now opposes funding for schools, effectively pulling up the ladder behind him.
2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.
2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.
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Get the Pulling Up the Laddermug. by Nopman August 2, 2018
Get the Pull a Billymug. by piners November 4, 2019
Get the Pulling off a pereira cristomug. by John East quad February 5, 2024
Get the Pulling a Sohammug.