The point where someone's reputation is tarnished for good. Similar to the event horizon of a black hole (once it's crossed, nothing can escape the hole's gravitational pull, not even light itself), it is no longer possible for someone past the abyss to restore their reputation. If they try to, they will be shunned, ignored, or otherwise prevented from succeeding. If they do manage to restore their reputation, that means they never actually crossed it in the first place.
I think O.J. Simpson crossed the reputation abyss when he was suspected of murdering his wife and her friend. Despite his acquittal, his reputation was irreparably damaged.
by Purplax November 27, 2024
Get the reputation abyss mug.Basically, this term means that you can't get something any cleaner (or purer) than it is. It's also meant as a compliment by saying that somebody's mother is not a skanky whore or streetwalker. This term appeared in the young adult edition of the novel adaptation of the 1979 sci-fi thriller"Alien".
George the janitor tidied up the restroom so well it's not simply spic and span, it's as clean as your mother's reputation.
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When no amount of background checks can find any amount of dirt on you. When you've lived a good life and can defend every single decision you made. When every person who interacted with you has only good things to say about you.
When no amount of background checks can find any amount of dirt on you. When you've lived a good life and can defend every single decision you made. When every person who interacted with you has only good things to say about you.
- I wish I had reputation as flawless as Kavanaugh's
- Yeah, I know, if FBI went 36 years into your past they would've surely find some missteps.
- I know. Only an honourable man with flawless reputation, like Kavanaugh, can get on a Supreme Court.
- Yeah, I know, if FBI went 36 years into your past they would've surely find some missteps.
- I know. Only an honourable man with flawless reputation, like Kavanaugh, can get on a Supreme Court.
by _______________9 October 8, 2018
Get the flawless reputation mug.Destroying your own reputation completely and irreversibly in a few quick steps. Usually refers to someone's great reputation that was built over a very long time and which was utterly destroyed in a very short time by their own unexpectedly ridiculous actions, like the previously-respected famous author Nicholas Nassim Taleb did to his own reputation after many consecutive aggressive rants on social media that many saw as complete mental break-downs and as attacks to his own ideas, books, friends, colleagues and followers. This is one of the quickest known "from Hero to Zero" in the modern world.
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Get the Flamisch reputation mug.When someone's reputation is unjust and incorrect.
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