The time-honoured practice of deliberately leaving something for a senior officer to find and criticise during his tour of inspection, which gives him a warm smug feeling and (hopefully) deflects his attention from corners that are better left unexamined. The senior officer, who of course was once a junior officer, knows the rules and plays along.
More generally, anything deliberately placed to deflect unwelcome interest.
More generally, anything deliberately placed to deflect unwelcome interest.
"Chief, it's the Captain's inspection at eleven hundred hours. Is there anything he shouldn't see? Well, it's too late now, let's hope for the best. Make sure you leave an admiral's potato for him to find, and tip off whoever will get the bollocking for it."
by Beermat December 31, 2020
by Mario456 November 15, 2021
When you're jealous of someone's place in life but you stíll admire what they create, or generally what they do.
by Middasqweed August 27, 2021
What the guy did was almost admirable. I could lie and say i was in awe, or that i did have a great admiration of him to gain something from it like many people do, but i'm not gonna do that if I'm really not.
by Solid Mantis January 17, 2021
What the guy did was almost admirable. I could lie to him and say that I was in awe of him, or had a great admiration (or respect for) of him to gain something out of it, but I'm not gonna do that if I'm really not in awe of him.
by Solid Mantis January 17, 2021
A sexual act wherein a man ejaculates in several discrete blobs from just below a woman’s navel straight upwards to just above her breasts, resembling the buttons on the coat of an admiral’s uniform.
Guy A: Did I tell you about my Tindr hookup?
Guy B: No, but since you’re bringing it up, I’m guessing you gave her The Admiral’s Buttons!
Guy A: Yep — the double-breasted version!
Alternatively…
Girl A: I let Tucker give me The Admiral’s Buttons last night.
Girl B: That was 12 hours ago and you still haven’t washed it off, you skank!
Guy B: No, but since you’re bringing it up, I’m guessing you gave her The Admiral’s Buttons!
Guy A: Yep — the double-breasted version!
Alternatively…
Girl A: I let Tucker give me The Admiral’s Buttons last night.
Girl B: That was 12 hours ago and you still haven’t washed it off, you skank!
by Refenestrated December 29, 2021
by TheNewLegion September 19, 2021