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Pulling a Lost

In matters of creativity, the process of continually developing so many complex ideas that a believable/acceptable resolution becomes impossible.

This concept is often visible in media entertainment, because it allows great individual ideas to build upon one another without negative consequence for a period of time. This tends to generate enormous popularity, as viewers ultimately expect to see how each idea is related, and what the endgame plan for the creation was.

This particular expression also embodies the feeling of extreme letdown that occurs when one realizes an entire creative structure has collapsed because no thought was given to the resolution, only to the individual ideas that preceded it.

The phrase derives from the series finale of the television show Lost. Many viewers felt the finale failed to sufficiently elaborate on the ideas that had made the show interesting, therefore cheapening them and in turn nullifying what had been the show's greatest strength.
Did you hear that excuse little Johnny tried to give the teacher? I swear, he was pulling a lost!

I like that television show a lot, but I'm hesitant because I think it might be pulling a lost.

His story had a flying chimpanzee, three harmonicas, a Bangladeshian warlock, and a dying supernova! Dude pulled a lost!!!
by red5xx June 29, 2011
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lost your balloons

That moment you realized you've fucked up to the point of no return, and now you have to watch the result of your fuck up unfold, much like you would if you let go of balloons accidentally.
Wow Shawn, you really lost your balloons on that one.

I don't know what I was thinking, I totally lost my balloons.
by Mi$$HotStuff May 29, 2020
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Lost Boy

A person, not specifically male, that is a wanderer that’s searching for themself. They might accidentally hurt people along the way. The term refers to the person as a little kid that is searching for their parent. The kid being the person and the parent as their “true” self
“She left her home and everything behind so she can find herself.”

“Oh so in a way she is a lost boy?”
by Love-RosieXx January 17, 2018
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lost a peanut

verb: struggle or hassle trying to complete an action, understand, or achieve something.
I lost a peanut trying to find my French book.

She lost a peanut trying to figure what the idiot was saying.
by JisuMoose September 15, 2010
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ArE yOu LoSt BaBy GoRl?

If you bump into the insanely beautiful rock hard chest of a creepy, catastrophically hot guy and he asks you this....welp, you’re in for a butt shitty/spectacular next 365 days of your life.
He: ArE yOu LoSt BaBy GoRl?

She: Ummummgrmmepethethehth
by Gotabs560 November 22, 2020
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Gambled and lost

When you try to fart but end up shitting in your pants.
Carlos and I were hanging out in the hotel room when Carlos lifted a cheek and squeezed one out. Unfortunately it sounded wet. Carlos gambled and lost.
by perogi February 6, 2007
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lost in the sauce

When you've got something going for you so good (money, women, fame, power, respect) that you become out of touch with reality and start: acting reckless, taking unnecessary risks, and get caught slipping.

Ex 1: Dude making so much money trapping that he starts to slip up and not take proper precautions.
Ex 2: Movie examples: Scarface, Paid in Full, Juice (fell in love w/ the gun), Wolf of Wall Street, Casino, Goodfellas
Ex 3: Dennis Schroder turning down 80m from the lakers because he wanted 100-120m.

The term was coined by Gucci mane: "If a man does not have sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can got lost in the sauce."

Let's break down what he means. "If a man does not have sauce, then he is lost." - with no sauce (money, women, fame, power, respect) then what is that man living for? He's lost. "But the same man can got lost in the sauce" - too much of a good thing can be detrimental.
OG: Nephew... I know you blowing up and doing ya thing, but never forget - DON'T GET LOST IN THE SAUCE.
by BAChelsea August 15, 2021
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