empty carrots-bag on a stick

Derisive term for a situation where a chronic moocher tries to temptingly persuade you to "just give him one very last loan" supposedly in order to enable him to accomplish whatever he needs to do in order to become able to finally pay you back all that he owes you --- and possibly a bit extra as a gratitude gesture --- in one lump sum. The idea is that he still does not even possess a real "carrot" --- i.e., any actual cold hard cash --- to offer you, but he is merely offering you the empty-talk promise of a "whole bag or carrots" --- i.e., a large one-time payment-amount that is far greater than any of the individual loans you have given him so far -- if you continue to bust your a** on his behalf. And of course, this assertion, too, is itself usually just another worthless promise, similar to all the other times when said handout-seeker has come bawling and blubbering to you for financial assistance in the past.

The local preacher tried to tell me that if I toil my butt off and live a life of strict propriety and chastity, **maybe** I will be given great rewards in Heaven. Sounds like a classic "empty carrots-bag on a stick" promise to me --- why should I suffer the agonies of an extra-hard and boring existence, especially when I am not even assured of any recognition or benefits for my efforts, anyway???

by QuacksO December 8, 2018

Walk softly but carry a big stick

Theodore Roosevelt's way of saying do everything carefully,but always keep the strap

Michael might act timid,but he's not scared to pack heat (i.e.,walk softly but carry a big stick)

by Nowthatsepic May 19, 2020

writing a speech with a stick

A term used when somebody is writing so badly that everybody is criticizing it.

random dude - "bruh this dude is writing a speech with a stick"

by Betaic January 5, 2021

chocolate dipped cheesecake on a stick

extremely hard to say. even the smartest people can struggle with it; quite the tongue twister

chocolate dipped- chocolate chipped- tocolate tipped- chocolate chipped cheesesteak on a stick- chocolate dipped cheesecake on a stick! i finally got it!

by scaroline January 18, 2022

YOU'RE the one watching it fuck-stick

And what is your study on an analogous topic going to accomplish other than your own aggrandizement, shit-for-brains? HA! *Long term he says! Ha!

Hym "Yeah, hey, I think you're deflecting to 2nd order motivational principles to detract from a pretty egregious violation of civil liberties in the vein of that E'carceration book. But what I've done is write something people are actually going to read and what I wrote isn't a derivative re-hashing of the same work-salesman talking points. I imagine this is intended to be analogous to a school shooting but that shit is YOUR fault, collectively. That's you not knowing when to let shit go. And if you would have let the trams shit go when I told you to, you'd have 7 extra Catholic kids running around WOULDN'T YOU MATT? And I'm not a fraud. People expect me to be bombastic or something but none of the characters based on me are that. Almost all of them are dispassionate or aloof. Which I am. Is being good at gas station work concordant with virtue? No. And everything I said was happening is happening. I don't know what you expect me to be but I guarantee you're going to expect (deliberately) something you know I'm not so you can cry fraud. But ONKY because I called your favorite psychologist a charlatan. Perpetual uno reverse out of spite but you can't actually think well enough to do anything else. That and YOU'RE the one watching it fuck-stick

by Hym Iam October 8, 2023

a banana spilt and a pogo stick

in season one the last episode off the season is all ends well with a wishing well the gang is at a wishing well and tigger wants a birthday and so he has to make up for all the birthdays he missed and one of his wishes was a banana spilt and a pogo stick some other wishes where the moon and a root bear and a pb&j i think a submarine and a sea of green so pooh go to get the moon for tigger but then he falls into the well and enters a wish world then tigger piglet and rabbit trie to save him but they find a giant cake for tigger tigger is older than most people reading this and 65+ at least!then they escape by using the last wish and then tigger get a banana spilt!

guy 1:look a tigger with a pig a bear and a rabbit eating a banana spilt while boncing on pogo stick!guy 2:WHAT THE FUCK guy three i want a banana spilt and a pogo stick too!

by BGUG555APPLEGANG123 January 22, 2025

Up a cow's udder for a stick of butter

Used to describe someone who’s completely in a ridiculous or unlikely place, or busy doing something absurd. A bovine version of “up a hog’s ass for a ham sandwich".

"Hey, where's Bud?"

"Don't know, probably up a cow's udder for a stick of butter."

by LilJimmyB August 28, 2025