The act of performing horribly at your current position, while subsequently getting promoted or advanced to a more predominant position.
See Gavin Newsom
See Gavin Newsom
"How can the former Mayor of San Francisco (one of the most profitable cities in California) run the city into the ground, then THEN be elected Governor or the state? He really has this Failing Upwards thing down. Next stop, (after further trashing the state) the Presidency!
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Dumb person: Awh shoot I’m going to fail this test
Smart person: Same :(
Dumb person: But im actually failing it, you’re just smart failing
Smart person: Same :(
Dumb person: But im actually failing it, you’re just smart failing
by Yodellegend May 27, 2018
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1. Mock fighting or wrestling, horseplay, slapping, or grab-assing, usually indulged in by immature boys.
2. Adults who evade work responsibility by indulging in tomfoolery or idle socializing when there is work to be done.
3. Current euphemism for "have sex," having replaced "make love" about 25-30 years ago. "Fooling around" connotes sexual foreplay which may or may not lead to deliberate intercourse depending on the couple's tradition and current opportunity.
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1. Mock fighting or wrestling, horseplay, slapping, or grab-assing, usually indulged in by immature boys.
2. Adults who evade work responsibility by indulging in tomfoolery or idle socializing when there is work to be done.
3. Current euphemism for "have sex," having replaced "make love" about 25-30 years ago. "Fooling around" connotes sexual foreplay which may or may not lead to deliberate intercourse depending on the couple's tradition and current opportunity.
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1-"Boys, if you don't stop that fooling around back there, I'm gonna turn this van around and we'll all go home."
2-"The phone was ringing, and where were the front-office employees? In the break room, fooling around as usual."
3-"There's nothing on TV and the kids are asleep. Feel like fooling around?"
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2-"The phone was ringing, and where were the front-office employees? In the break room, fooling around as usual."
3-"There's nothing on TV and the kids are asleep. Feel like fooling around?"
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by al-in-chgo August 18, 2010
Get the fooling around mug.When one achieves a lower grade than a 90% in a class or on an assignment. As a noun it is Rachel Failure. In Past tense, Rachel Failed
Katie: I'm so stoked, I got an 87%!
Kieran: You still Rachel Failed.
Kieran: I have a 76% in Math!
Katie: Whoa, you're really Rachel Failing.
Kieran: You still Rachel Failed.
Kieran: I have a 76% in Math!
Katie: Whoa, you're really Rachel Failing.
by Mohammed Abdul Jabar November 15, 2010
Get the Rachel Failing mug.To fail at failing is to fail so horrbily that you are the king of all things fail. This is not a double-negative, you just suck! It is also consider 386 times more fail than an Epic Fail.
1. Jim: Dude I totaly just crashed my car onto my roof!
Gary: Wow man you fail at failing!
2. Gary: Jim got a -72 points on his english test.
Rick: Wow he fails at failing!
Gary: Wow man you fail at failing!
2. Gary: Jim got a -72 points on his english test.
Rick: Wow he fails at failing!
by Kamakazai November 11, 2009
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