abruptly ending financial contributions; to financially ostracize; the stopping of monetary flow. Often used as a serious warning in a quid pro quo situation.
phrase; idiom
The first recorded usage of the viral phrase 'turning off the faucets' was in 2024 by Nevin Shapiro during a Momentum Podcast episode. “I said Coach, if that kid don’t see the field I’m turning off the faucets”, for the purpose of clearly and definitively communicating to Larry Coker, that all funding to the Miami Hurricane football program will immediately come to a halt if he didn’t start then freshman Devin “Hurricane” Hester for subsequent games of the 2003 season. It’s an effective way for one to convey the gravity and seriousness of a situation involving money in a not so subtle yet sophisticated manner.
phrase; idiom
The first recorded usage of the viral phrase 'turning off the faucets' was in 2024 by Nevin Shapiro during a Momentum Podcast episode. “I said Coach, if that kid don’t see the field I’m turning off the faucets”, for the purpose of clearly and definitively communicating to Larry Coker, that all funding to the Miami Hurricane football program will immediately come to a halt if he didn’t start then freshman Devin “Hurricane” Hester for subsequent games of the 2003 season. It’s an effective way for one to convey the gravity and seriousness of a situation involving money in a not so subtle yet sophisticated manner.
"If you don't meet the deadline, I'm turning off the faucets on this project."
“If you don’t have a 3.5 GPA by the end of the semester I’m turning off the faucets!”
“Bro she broke up with you as soon as you turned the faucets off, she's a gold digger!”
“If you don’t have a 3.5 GPA by the end of the semester I’m turning off the faucets!”
“Bro she broke up with you as soon as you turned the faucets off, she's a gold digger!”
by NCAA_D1 June 13, 2024
Get the turning off the faucetsmug. by oweijf;lsdakj;flkajsd;f May 5, 2023
Get the Turning Red Moviemug. by telling everyone fans turning, you are blowing a phat vape cloud into the mic and telling people it is just your fan that is turning.
by hitlers daughter November 17, 2020
Get the Fans turningmug. by LHPer July 3, 2018
Get the turn Kha Nhanmug. When you are on a two lane two way road and realize that you missed a left turn so you make a U turn and go diagonally to it. But then you realize its the wrong one and it’s actually ahead so you make another U turn. Then you move left to get on the correct side again.
Person 1: I had to make a 8 turn today and now I feel stupid.
Person 2: You feel stupid? I made a Z turn because I didn’t notice the side I was on was under construction. I didn’t even finish the turn after the diagonal… I had to get my car towed AND fixed!
Person 2: You feel stupid? I made a Z turn because I didn’t notice the side I was on was under construction. I didn’t even finish the turn after the diagonal… I had to get my car towed AND fixed!
by anonymous September 11, 2022
Get the 8 Turnmug. Z-turn is from 折腾 (zheteng) in Chinese，it means "flip-flop", "get sidetracked", "sway back and forth", "dithering" and "major changes". The word was famously used by a Chinese leader in 2009 by saying "Bu Zheteng" in Chinese (Don't do zheteng, meaning don't get sidetracked). Online conversation between educated people tends to use "Z-turn" (pronunciation is close to zheteng) to replace zheteng to avoid censorship since the word was once used by a former Chinese leader.
Look, the Government is making a z-turn again.
It's just a z-turn.
Don't do a z-turn, it won't get you anywhere!
It's just a z-turn.
Don't do a z-turn, it won't get you anywhere!
by buzheteng July 22, 2022
Get the Z-Turnmug.