Pull a Shyamalan

To "Pull a Shyamalan" means to begin doing something and being fantastic at it on your first attempt, but to then become progressively worse at it with every attempt as you continue on doing it with no possible chance of redemption. Some people might even secretly hope you're gonna make it this next time but you never will. The origin of this phrase comes from Director Night Shyamalan's career as everyone seems to unanimously agree that the "6th Sense" was a masterpiece while everything else he did afterwards only got worse and worse over time.

(to pull a Shyamalan): Gaston Gaudio really pulled a Shyamalan with his tennis carreer. He started of winning Roland Garros and then crashed it spectaculary into the ground match after match. Total career meltdown.

by KaiserWordsmith November 3, 2017

pull out the scroll

A person who lists the wrongdoings from the other party.

Oh, you don’t remember what happened? Let me pull out the scroll real quick.

by Saucysavage93 March 31, 2022

pull a general kelly

Give a hostile account of something Democratic, untrue from beginning to end in its critical points. The account is usually adapted from fake news without conscious recognition that it is fake.

The term derives from one unfortunate White House press conference.

He tried to pull a general kelly, but it was an unlucky general kelly because the video of the event immediately went viral.

by less-is-more October 24, 2017

pulled a naseem

when you forget you are using your burner account and expose yourself on twitter

I can’t believe Steve pulled a Naseem and exposed who he really was on his burner account!

by TTTribe June 8, 2022

get to pull

When you tell someone to "go to work", instead of fooling around to get money, or when they are wasting their time

Liza - I'm going to get a Suggar Daddy.

Jose - Get to pull, wey

by thraxxx September 19, 2020

San Francisco Tractor Pull

Originally designed as a contest for gay men, two people standing back to back have one set of anal beads inserted into their rectums and proceed to have a tug-of war by clenching and attempting to pull away from each other.

Tom was the clear winner in last nights San Francisco Tractor Pull, Tony did go away with 2cd place and a prolapsed rectum though.

by IUD or IED? May 5, 2020

Pulling a Toby

The act of a person abandoning and forever ignoring you due to a mental breakdown you had one night over a condition you have no control over, AND are being treated for.

She and her girlfriend are breaking up soon. Her girlfriend seems to be pulling a Toby.

by bendevnull July 19, 2019