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KUDO TRICKLE DOWN THEORY

When you finish something big at work that gets recognized by the top brass you're not recognized for doing the work. Your boss's boss is given the full amount of kudos and they in turn give a reduced amount of kudos to your immediate boss. By the time you get recognized there are only one or two kudos left.
"Jack suffered the full loss of the kudo trickle down theory after slaving on that project for six months. He got the last remaining kudo left. What a shame."

"Stacy only got a pat on the back from the remains of the kudo trickle down theory. All that work for one kudo."
by MR WOLF September 9, 2007
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Trickle Down

The phenomenon in which the rich elite of America let poor and lazy Americans catch the ball sweat trickling off of the rich man's scrotum. It is believed that consuming the rich man's testicular perspiration makes the poor pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Boy! Goldman Sachs sure can trickle down all over my face. Now I have a job and a house!
by harmolodic July 26, 2011
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Trickler

The act of getting hit by a slow moving backwards green or red shell in Mario Kart
aww man just got nailed by that trickler =(

aaaaaaaa du see that trickler?!!
by Peach Beach October 16, 2008
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trickle down sexonomics

when all of your friends have girl friends and you take all of their side hoes.
Sense I'm "talking " to Maddie, you can have all of my side hoes. I call it "trickle down sexonomics."
by Shredtasty August 11, 2016
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Trickle Down Economics

Trickle Down Economics is a blatant strawman of supply-side economics used to demonize supporters of said system.
Those using the term assert that Republicans intend to cut taxes on the rich people, which will then, by some undefined mechanism, cause money to trickle down to the poor.
However, not one economist has ever published a theory on the mechanism behind this so called Trickle Down Theory.
This strawman mainly serves to demonize the Republicans for cutting taxes on the rich. The actual position of the Republicans, supply side economics, asserts a well known phenomenon, wherein cutting taxes on rich people will cause them to invest more money, thus opening new markets or expanding existing ones, creating jobs and generating wealth.
The origins of the term lie in a speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, wherein it is asserted that there are two economic theories, one according to which "If we make the rich people richer, somehow they will let a part trickle down to the rest of us.
The second theory ... is that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upwards, just as yeast rises up, through the ranks."
Roosevelt, a democrat ironically enough, mocked this idea himself, however, it has somehow become a staple in politics to claim that this nonexistant theory is somehow the economic position of the Republicans.
Trickle down economics has not worked even once.
By cutting the taxes for the rich, the money they save, so they claim, will some how trickle down to the poor.
by chrischi3 September 14, 2018
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Trickleberry

When fuzz or lint attaches to a strand of butt hair tricking someone into thinking it’s a true dingleberry. It’s primarily the color underwear worn that day or could be a multitude of colors depending on when you last washed your cornhole.
Jerry was disgusted with himself after getting his salad tossed and the girl pulled out what he thought was a dingleberry. He was relieved when she informed him it was only a trickleberry.
by corigunz April 25, 2020
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Trickle-down Theory

The theory or belief that one only needs to apply soap to the head or hair during a shower, as it will "trickle down", affecting the whole body during cleansing.
Foo: "Dude, how do you take such fast showers?"
Bar: "Simple economics... Trickle-down Theory.'
by averagebrine November 11, 2022
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