to salt both sides of the pretzel

To be slow, dull-witted, dimwitted, soft in the head, dumb. To be "not all there."

John is a very bright person!

You think so? To me, he seems to salt both sides of the pretzel.

by uhqfuhasdasdfh February 8, 2010

Chewing with both sides of your mouth

Wait what!? I can't you fucking idiot. There's a hole in my tooth!

Hym "You have got to be fucking shitting me, does NOT chewing with both sides of your mouth contribute to TMJ!? Well what in the fuck am I supposed to do about that now you son of a bitch!? God damnit. Oh and does my concern for the spontaneous increase in the severity of my symptoms insult you? Is it not worth your time? Fucking prick."

by Hym Iam August 5, 2023

Both-Sidesing

An approach to news reporting in which factual and empirical information is placed on equal ground to conspiracy theories and misinformation attempting to refute them. Often endorsed by legacy media organizations to farm clicks and comments with the often absurd nature of the both-sidesing taking place.

I'm done watching/listening to that news network. They keep both-sidesing their reporting on crimes against humanity and frankly I'm sick of it.

by Soupalphabet July 8, 2023

bothsies

Being drunk and high simultaneously. Usually used to talk about the earlier phases of this phenomenon, unlike the later phases, usually called "the spins," which totally suck.

"Dude, I just drank 5 PBR's and then lit up a blunt. I'm getting a little bothsies."

by Plate87 November 22, 2011

bothsidesism

When a person tries to make you believe that both sides are equally responsible for something even though one is really, clearly, at fault.

Trump's bothsidesism about the alt-right and alt-left is ridiculous.

by seil40 August 17, 2017

bothsidesism

A noun for when a person tries to assert that both sides of a debate are equally X (reprehensible, reasonable, etc.)

Also "bothsideism" possible

A possible synonym of "equivocation"

Use of term accelerated with the Trump administration's refusal to denounce white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, preferring to compare them to their protestors.

From NYTimes Opinion Newsletter, 8/17/17

"A forwarded email from President Trump’s personal lawyer defending the president’s bothsidesism on the violence in Charlottesville wrongly equates George Washington with Robert E. Lee, The Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum argues. “The analogy is central to the cult of Lee, to the mythos of the Lost Cause, and to the denial of what the Confederacy actually was,” he tweeted.

by seil40 August 17, 2017