A deceptive workplace maneuver in which an employee is offered a favor or opportunity (typically a job or promotion) by their boss under an implied quid pro quo—but instead of reciprocating the “quid” directly, the employee skips the middleman and delivers the “quo” to the boss’s boss.
When Dave hinted that Rachel could get the senior manager role if she helped him “off the record,” she pulled a classic Quid Pro No—she took the quo straight to the VP and walked out with the promotion and left Dave with blue balls and self doubt.
by Peterhardon July 28, 2025
Get the Quid Pro Nomug. When you shag someone for around half a second, the equivalent of paying a London prostitute £1 for a shag
by Haha yeah man May 2, 2018
Get the quidmug. A form of benevolent sexism in which a boss offers sex to an employee in exchange for work-related benefits, such as a pay raise or promotion, but instead places 50 or more crows in the employee’s office the next day.
Person 1: “Did you hear that ‘Beckie’ in HR found 50 crows in her office on Monday morning?”
Person 2: “Oh no that’s terrible!”
Person 1: “Absolutely! I think ‘Mark’ offered her sex in exchange for a raise.”
Person 2: “Oh my! He tricked her with quid pro crow!”
Person 2: “Oh no that’s terrible!”
Person 1: “Absolutely! I think ‘Mark’ offered her sex in exchange for a raise.”
Person 2: “Oh my! He tricked her with quid pro crow!”
by @walrusozempic November 7, 2023
Get the Quid pro crowmug. `arf-quid means half-quid. It is not untranslatable "old-speak", it is simply eye dialect. A "half-quid" is half a quid. A quid is slang for a pound sterling, analogous to the use of "buck" to refer to a US dollar.
"Here's you a-comin' and arskin' of me questions about my business, and I that grumpy-like that only for your bloomin' `arf-quid I'd 'a' seen you blowed fust 'fore I'd answer."
"An' when you said you'd report me for usin' of obscene language that was 'ittin' me over the 'ead; but the `arf-quid made that all right."
"An' when you said you'd report me for usin' of obscene language that was 'ittin' me over the 'ead; but the `arf-quid made that all right."
by dgrilawidbanana February 9, 2025
Get the `arf-quidmug. What folks are saying about Clarence and Ginni Thomas’ shamelessly profiteering Supreme Court decision-for-sale antics.
Oh Clarence, how can the public even think for a minute that we are taking bribes for access, that what we’ve done is a quid pro no-no?
by Dr Bunnygirl May 4, 2023
Get the quid pro no-nomug. The opposite of ‘guid pro quo’: in which there is no (equal or any)return of similar value or action from person to person.
After the massive amount of financial help I gave him; with a ‘guid pro quo’ expectation... I haven’t gotten anything from this dude. He didn’t seem like a ‘Quid-Pro-No’!!!!
by Major Thomas Randle September 20, 2018
Get the Quid-Pro-Nomug. Jeremy: “Audrey was mad at me for going to the movies without her.”
Drew: “Didn’t she remember you asked her last week?”
Jeremy: “I tried to tell her but she was being a quid.”
Drew: “Didn’t she remember you asked her last week?”
Jeremy: “I tried to tell her but she was being a quid.”
by Cūrtłē May 31, 2018
Get the Quidmug.