shoot for the gold

1. cop-out and accept the minimum prize, for doing no work

2. do what is lucrative instead of doing your job

In contrast "go for the gold" means try and risk failure for the possibility of greater achievement.

Required to pick a research topic in order to move up in academia, he decided to shoot for the gold with "people with AIDS suffer more infections than other people" instead of picking something, like, intelligent and interesting.

by atchafalya March 20, 2013

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Shooting someone off

The action of cutting someone off, on the road, whilst ejaculating onto their car windshield.

My friend believed that shooting someone off was a viable punishment for reckless drivers.

by TheBlackCat9310 July 02, 2024

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shoot me in the club

That’s my favorite ex and he still fine to me and no I don’t like him he just so fine

Shoot me in the club

by Sumaybe February 09, 2021

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shoot the thirty

to fight someone it said that it is going to take you thirty minutes to fight him

I'ma shoot the thirty with these gangs or they kick my ass

by y.east on tha track June 26, 2021

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shoot the baboon

The required response to a situation in which technology fails a presenter in front of an audience, making unpreparedness blatantly obvious and captivating, as if there as a baboon in the room.

Make sure you double check your laptop battery, so you don't have to shoot the baboon.

by djmuz May 31, 2016

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