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stick a fork in it

Meaning that something is definitively finished such that whatever it is doing (or being done to it) should or can be stopped, or considered to be done.

From grilling -- not to test whether something is done, b/c that wouldn't make any sense, given what the phrase means. Instead, to stick a fork in the piece of sufficiently-grilled-meat so as to take it off the grill. Connotations of definitive doneness enhanced by sub-conscious notion that the piece of meat is not only completely cooked, it is no longer reasonably conceived of as part of a living animal, and thus can be stabbed with impunity.
Now that Iraq has descended into chaos, you can stick a fork into Bush's re-election chances.
by romberjo July 31, 2004
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shit and fall backwards in it

A response trivialising someone's description of what they plan to do, when the listener finds it extravagant or believes it won't actually be carried out or won't succeed.
Person A: My sister is so upset with her local councilman that she's starting a petition to have him recalled.

Person B: Yeah, she's gonna shit and fall backwards in it.
by radiohead3885 October 4, 2011
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stick a fork in it

Exhausted, used up, finished. From meat that is fully cooked and ready to be handled with a fork.
That board is toast-stick a fork in it
by numerator May 2, 2005
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swimming in it

I have this new job I have to learn and I'm swimming in it.
by Andy VW September 28, 2006
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sasquatch'in it UP

Trampin' through da Back woodz with a giant erection and confusion. OH HELL NAHYEAH banana.
you've been evicted from my river

hell yeah.
dont u damn steal my pocket lotion. i need that shit like water.
watcha doin brobro, squatchin it up???
yeah. shit. chillin.
fuck noice. so u mean that sasquatch'in it UP is the same for all friends.
by chadandchixx October 7, 2021
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In over my head and balls deep in it

Incapable of doing anything more.
No way I can make those changes in time! - Im in over my head and balls deep in it already...
by ^^!$#@ November 29, 2018
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my heart isn't in it

"My parents want me to be a lawyer, but my heart isn't in it so I will be a journalist."
by Nany165 June 7, 2017
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