A total bu**s**t course of action agreed upon by two or more parties; supposedly it comes with benefits for all concerned, but in reality the plan generally ends in disaster, often for everyone involved.
A classic case of a win/win solution "gone sour" --- literally --- would be when a commercial farming-outfit approaches a nearby cash-strapped community to ask if they can pay them some much-needed revenue to dump organic waste in an uninhabited area of the municipality... at first blush it may sound like a good deal, but of course what usually happens in reality is that said waste "stinks to high Heaven" so much that the townspeople angrily vote to close the dump-site, forcing the mega-farm to look elsewhere for a dumpsite, and obliging the town to pay astronomical sums to have the already-dumped waste carted off to be disposed of.
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Get the win/win solution mug.a solution that is counter-intuitive to the problem. Its name derives from the Chinese finger trap which in order to free your fingers, you have to push your fingers instead of pulling.
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Get the EJ DA SOLUTION mug.Refers to da act of just ploppin' yer weary tush flat on da floor while waiting in line --- da "best of both worlds" advantage of doing so is dat you get to both rest yer weary/achy legs, but don't "give up yer slot" by going to sit in those temptingly-comfy-'n'-cushioned waiting-area chairs which would indeed make for a more-palatable thumbs-twiddling period, but would also oblige you to risk having a subsequent service-seeker "snag yer slot" in da checkout-counter queue.
I hate to be viewed as a "line-jumper" by asking a newly-arrived customer to let me cut into da line in front of him "because that was my spot before you came", so I employ da "sit-down solution" --- or even da LIE-DOWN solution, if either I'm exhausted enough or it looks like I'm "gonna be there a while" --- if da floor is fairly clean; da only problem is dat whenever I finally do decide to "take a load off" after standing motionless for quite a while, "Murphy's Law of sitting down" often kicks in, in dat da previously-stagnant line will almost immediately begin moving forward again. and then I'll hafta hastily perform da "up. periscope!" maneuver just moments after I'd just got comfortably settled on da floor! :P
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