"I've just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards)... to hide the decline." - climatologist Phil Jones, in the most infamous Climategate email
by SaveTheEndangeredAdverb July 23, 2016
when someone fails doing a skateboard trick and immediately lands another trick so they don't look like a loser.
Joe didn't land the 180 ollie so he did a kickflip as a reputation trick so that he didn't look like a loser.
by joedvs1 February 21, 2010
"So he found buried treasure while he was digging around in someone else's yard. Get this: he left it there, came back, and bought the property!"
"That's an old Iowa trick, friend."
"That's an old Iowa trick, friend."
by Cofveve July 27, 2017
I did the Xbox 360 towel trick and then tried it in other places in life and it actually does work everywhere.
by rubless October 11, 2018
Two or more courses of action, presented as options, that all lead to failure.
Supervisors or managers will resort to this in order to deliberately cause a subordinate to fail. When the employee fails, he or she is counseled or terminated for failing the task.
Supervisors or managers will resort to this in order to deliberately cause a subordinate to fail. When the employee fails, he or she is counseled or terminated for failing the task.
Last Monday my supervisor gave me a choice of cleaning the entire assembly line in one day or inventorying everything in the warehouse in one day. I chose the inventory and could not complete it in one day so I got fired. My supervisor put me in a trick bag.
by Rob64Tampa September 23, 2020
by moodyrichard September 04, 2018
by cyborg123 December 08, 2017