dancing in which the dancer, usually a woman, shakes her hips in an up-and-down manner, obstructing progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.
The new bill containing big-agri earmarks was defeated by a twerking filibuster lasting over 45 minutes.
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Used in conversation to provide information about an event or situation without revealing or compromising personal and sensitive details about the actual event or situation.
Also used more when an individual or group Interferes with predetermined plans to purposefully prevent a specific outcome.
Also used to indicate the opposite of factual events or details.
Also know as a similie in proper grammatical terms.
Used in conversation to provide information about an event or situation without revealing or compromising personal and sensitive details about the actual event or situation.
Also used more when an individual or group Interferes with predetermined plans to purposefully prevent a specific outcome.
Also used to indicate the opposite of factual events or details.
Also know as a similie in proper grammatical terms.
John drove around town all weekend running errands but filibustered to his work friends that he flew around the world.
John didn’t want to tell his boss that he overslept so he filibustered that he had a plumbing leak.
John didn’t want to tell his boss that he overslept so he filibustered that he had a plumbing leak.
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2. A republican babbling trying to block a law they don't like from being passed.
2. A republican babbling trying to block a law they don't like from being passed.
Zack: Mommy, I wanna bring my new toy!
Jenna: No, Zack. You can't bring your new toy. It's a filibuster.
Jenna: No, Zack. You can't bring your new toy. It's a filibuster.
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Get the filibuster mug.Or "phive-phrase philibuster". Refers to a knock-knock joke, since its utilization needlessly adds lots of extra words to said utterance, especially in "everyday" or "ordinary" instances where a simple question or statement would have sufficed.
Employing a five-frase filibuster may indeed consume extra time and lung-power, but it also can often greatly relieve tension and cause a possibly-less-than-welcome statement/question to be received considerably more calmly and/or amicably than it might have been if you'd simply blurted it out "directly".
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