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Build cathedrals just to fart in them

(idiom)

To put deep care and meaning into something - only to follow it with something hilariously undignified, awkward, or unexpected. A poetic expression of how beauty and absurdity coexist.
He gave a TED Talk that moved the crowd to tears while trying to suppress a fart - and tripped walking offstage letting it rip. We build cathedrals just to fart in them.

We spent hours crafting a delicate love letter to humanity… then added a joke about a presence queef. We build cathedrals just to fart in them.
by Ashfires September 6, 2025
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Monkey Farts

Sounds like a horrible smell but it's actually a smell similar to the combination of a rain forest and pineapple field. Instead of thinking of a negative person, you think of someone like a hippy-spiritual and at peace. Or could it be they're a wolf wearing a sheep's clothing and smelling like monkey farts?
When I walked into the room a strong smell of monkey farts hit me in the face, coming from a very strange person trying too hard to get my attention.
by Mary Mooner August 18, 2019
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fart

Fart is a modest way of describing cum being spread atop a young British boy from the Quebec ethnicity
"I love it when Brian farts me, it makes me feel at home and brings back memories of when my dad would do it to me in primary school."
by Pierre Lo' Fieere August 20, 2023
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Fart

by Princess pink12345 November 12, 2020
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fart

The term, "Fart" Is mainly used by people with broken and 2017 humor. They really do believe that their funny even though they arent.
by Niznet January 17, 2024
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corn farting

Corn farting is that that mess at bottom of the corn popper that is all yellow looking. So, how do you wipe the yellow stuff off the white fluffy stuff?
Corn Farting: Even scrubbing it won't get all the corn farting out of your popcorn popper.
by Bubba from Georgia June 11, 2019
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fArt

you know it’s fArt. It’s free Art you made for friends
by monstercookiemoncher April 30, 2022
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