corporate doublespeak for "we don't want to do our best, so let's make sure people think we're doing our best without revealing that we're not doing our best" -- anything in which you have to "manage expectations" means you could probably devote more time and effort to making things better, but you just don't feel like it
Marketing has to manage expectations of our new software package so that the boss doesn't make us do any more work.
by Yet Another Josh Cohen January 13, 2007
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When someone doesn't know the difference between an e-boyfriend (someone whom they met online but never in real life) and a long distance boyfriend (someone whom you have met before prior to dating online)
Commonly used as an insult to girls who are in a "long distance relationship" with an e-boyfriend.
Commonly used as an insult to girls who are in a "long distance relationship" with an e-boyfriend.
Tom: Alice has been bragging about her new "long distance relationship" but she has never met him IRL!
Alex: WOW, so it's an eRelationship?
Tom: I'm afraid so...
Alex: WOW, so it's an eRelationship?
Tom: I'm afraid so...
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2. What one wants to happen in the future.
The only word known to be both a synonym and antonym to itself, because an optimist will expect their expectations to be met, while a pessimist will not expect their expectations to be met.
2. What one wants to happen in the future.
The only word known to be both a synonym and antonym to itself, because an optimist will expect their expectations to be met, while a pessimist will not expect their expectations to be met.
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by archimedest July 28, 2006
Get the expectation mug.Taking established points of previous installments in a franchice belowed by billions of people and completely destroying it to un unrecoverable state, deforming the most miniscule details as well (e.g. how gravity works in space), just because you have the power to do it while NOT taking any accountability your actions.
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When someone is being out of pocket and you have to reality check them.
When someone is being out of pocket and you have to reality check them.
P: I don't want to be intimate with Shrek, so weird of you to say.
C: Do I need to remind you that I've seen your tiktok?
P: That message was so humbling.
C: It wasn't meant to be humbling, it's just right-sizing expectations.
C: Do I need to remind you that I've seen your tiktok?
P: That message was so humbling.
C: It wasn't meant to be humbling, it's just right-sizing expectations.
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