Three quarters, two dimes, two nickels, and five pennies. Something people carry when they want to get rid of their change.
"Perfect change" is what you give a casier so you don't get change back. "A perfect change" is the combination of coins you might carry so you can give perfect change.
Cashier: The total comes to $6.68
Customer: *gives her a five, a one, two quarters, a dime, a nickel, and three pennies.
Cashier: Your change comes to...um...nothing.
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Man, I've got a lot of coins. I should probably make a perfect change.
Overcooking food to the point where it loses its tastes. Used as an excuse to joke around about being a terrible cook rather than improving or giving up.
"Cooked to British perfection!" my mom would cackle as she served us yet another bland meal.
It is the elite club of whipped workhorses when sales are down in your industry.
Initiation:
The staff is already too small to cut from, so corporate will take five percent of your pay to offset what they call "loss"
Technically, it's not a loss at all.
Just less profit for those already lining their pockets with your grocery money.
Considered communism.
Everyone could still win, but won't.
CEO: We've had to make a hard decision today. Sales are down. To make up for it, everyone will take a 5% cut in pay until further notice. We will do this as a whole. Everyone is important to the team. We are a company of people. People are our biggest resource. Without our people, we are nothing.
Workhorses: So we're all now five percenter's. At least we still have jobs.