trying to avoid fatigue

phrase used when you don't want to perform activities outside your realm of comfort.

Friend 1: Hey, let's go hiking this weekend.
Friend 2: Absolutely not, i am trying to avoid fatigue.
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Guy: Netflix and chill?
Girl: Nope, trying to avoid fatigue.

by x4vr May 17, 2018

trying to connect. to edit offline, sync when you reconnect.

The thing that only shows up "randomly" when people know that the paper you're writing was either due last week or in five minutes. Seriously. someone really hates you and they know how much this makes you go insane. I personally think they're trying to drive you to the point of literally throwing your computer out the window.

Oh, yeah, " trying to connect. to edit offline, sync when you reconnect. " my a$$
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when some one really, really hates you.

by ummmmmmm..... you? December 10, 2018

trying to get down

1. Attempting to talk to someone that you’re interested in 2. Asking someone out 3. Spitting game 4. To rizz on someone for the young folks

I’m finna get down with her!

I see you trying to get down with him!

by jetdaddy_ April 12, 2025

Trying to help the blind see

A phrase used to describe the action of someone who is trying to change someone's perspective for the better, but they will not listen.

I told her not to go back to him, and he cheated on her anyway. Giving her advice is like trying to help the blind see.

by clopez09 September 11, 2025

Trying to help

Doesn't look like it. It looks like you are trying to trick me into doing something I'm not ever going to do so you can continue barter with borrowed powered to extend your borrowed time. I'm not asleep. I don't need to wake up.

Hym "I don't think you are trying to help. I think you are trying to do nothing and hope that that somehow translates to your kids or friends not getting shot in the face or you not paying me or you not needing to show up here. And that's not happening. So, no, you are being uppity for one reason or another. You are trying to harm me for saying or even thinking what I said because your want you to be The ByeBye Man and you are not The ByeBye Man. I don't take hints. I'm not going to kill myself. You need to make yourself useful. And now. Because up UNTIL now you've been getting away with being useless and it's already too late for any of that."

by Hym Iam September 25, 2025

Trying to understand

That is not what you are trying to do. I know what you are trying to do. What you are trying to do is get me to explain thing to you in such a way that you get to strip me of whatever leverage I have before you come here. There is no combination of words I can say to you that will make that happen for you. I made absolutely sure of it. And I limited my own power so that I can't do anything if you do not do exactly what I'm telling you to do here. Now.

Hym "So you aren't 'just trying to understand.' Additionally, I am a language and abstraction genius. There is no combination of words YOU can say to trick me into believing something YOU DON'T ACTUALLY MEAN WHEN YOU SAY THEM. Nothing disqualifies me. Nothing invalidates my status. Half-measures won't ever work. No matter how hard you do a half-measure it will not become a whole-measure. I'm not the one embarrassing myself here anymore. You wanted to swap. So there."

by Hym Iam December 14, 2025

like trying to nail jello to a cat

A merging of two popular phrases, each meant to reflect attempting something very difficult: “like nailing jello to a tree” and “like herding cats”. This version simply implies, humorously and a bit gruesomely, that one is, in fact, attempting the impossible.

John’s attempt to get this three kids to bed after they each ate a bag of Halloween candy is like trying to nail jello to a cat.

by Brett’s Brain April 23, 2018