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turning off the faucets

abruptly ending financial contributions; to financially ostracize; the stopping of monetary flow. Often used as a serious warning in a quid pro quo situation.

phrase; idiom

The first recorded usage of the viral phrase 'turning off the faucets' was in 2024 by Nevin Shapiro during a Momentum Podcast episode. “I said Coach, if that kid don’t see the field I’m turning off the faucets”, for the purpose of clearly and definitively communicating to Larry Coker, that all funding to the Miami Hurricane football program will immediately come to a halt if he didn’t start then freshman Devin “Hurricane” Hester for subsequent games of the 2003 season. It’s an effective way for one to convey the gravity and seriousness of a situation involving money in a not so subtle yet sophisticated manner.
"If you don't meet the deadline, I'm turning off the faucets on this project."
“If you don’t have a 3.5 GPA by the end of the semester I’m turning off the faucets!”
“Bro she broke up with you as soon as you turned the faucets off, she's a gold digger!”
by NCAA_D1 June 13, 2024
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Back to the turing test

I mean... If they are trying to conceive of a new one... Then it must have (Or a version of it) must have already passed it... Right?
Hym "Back to the turing test... Isn't it weird? All the spooky A.I. stuff going on? Robots moving on their own... Without human 'permission.' Writing and selling books... Isn't that a little weird? And spooky? I wonder what caused that... I mean..."
by Hym Iam August 11, 2023
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tuning the tuba

playing with balls while giving head....
i wish my wife would tune my tuba more often....Tuning the tuba...
by Bigbadbootydaddy6909 May 14, 2009
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Tuning the Piano

Having sex within arms reach of a piano
Oh, sorry we were tuning the piano
by dot the eyes March 17, 2011
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The Vanicsek-Turing Test

Let an AI write 5 publications for you, if they accept it write a 6th one about how your AI fooled them 5 times and publish it to the same place.
- “What did you mean by ‘the sperm count of genderless frogs can be as high as the number of all the Toyota corollas in the world'?”
- “Well the real question is what does it mean to you?”
- "I think you just failed the Vanicsek-Turing test."
by the1g June 27, 2022
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