Window of negligence

The time period when a dereliction of duty occurs. Often, an ordinarily prudent member of an organization who normally exercises the level of care generally required for their position, will request that a window of negligence be granted by their superior due to time constraints or logistical complications. The partaker, in essence, is asking for a limited-time exemption from their expected responsibilities or in some cases, after dereliction has already occurred, leniency from their superior in regards to punishment for said subpar job performance that would’ve taken place within the window. The phrase was coined by Matt Fondiler on the 4/19/16 episode of “The Adam Carolla Show.”

INT. BRIDGE OF TITANIC – APRIL 14, 1912 02:40 GMT

(Captain rushes onto the bridge)

Captain: What was that scraping sound I heard while I was in the bathroom?

First mate: Sir, I think we hit an iceberg.

Captain: You think?! Weren’t you at the helm?

First mate: Er…uh…

Captain: Well weren’t you?!!

Second mate: I know where he was Captain.

First mate: You fink!!

Second mate: I may be a fink but at least I’m not some sexual deviant who gets his rocks off watching scrawny, working-class lads plow Rubenesque socialites in the backs of Renault CB Coupe de Villes down in the cargo hold.

First mate: I was merely protecting our passengers’ property.

Second mate: Yeah, then why was your dick in your hand?

Captain: Enough!! This is clearly my fault.

First mate: Now now, Captain.

Captain: No, I should’ve given you a smaller window of negligence while I dropped the Cosby kids off at the pool.

First mate: Cosby?

Captain: He’s a negro rapist in the future who played a beloved pussy doctor on telev---Nevermind that. Ready the lifeboats!

by griffin_t_a September 23, 2016

Windows 10

Spyware with nothing but driver errors, and error codes.

I'd say you're better off using anything but windows 10.So windows 8, windows 7, linux, etc.

If you're gonna use windows 10, prepare to come across every windows error in existence, "IN JUST ONE DAY"

by UnknownPersonsss September 20, 2019

Flowers in the window

Pregnant. Akin to a 'bun in the oven', the expression 'flowers in the window' simply refers to a woman in the family way. As mentioned in the Travis song.

So I heard Becky's got a bun in the oven... y'know flowers in the window.

by Nilsia July 10, 2010

I'll bare my arse in Fenwicks' window

A saying from Tyneside (in the North East of England), used when expressing absolute confidence that something will not happen. It refers to Fenwicks' department store in Northumberland Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, which is famous for the quality of its window displays, especially at Christmas.

Similar in sentiment to I'll eat my hat.

If Sunderland finish above Newcastle in the league, I'll bare my arse in Fenwicks' window!

by Dommar41 June 9, 2012

Windowsill Bay

Time away from work spent at home.

"Where you going next week when you are off work?"

"Windowsill bay"

by Bristol Tone October 4, 2008

Windows Computer

A piece of technology that is used to surf the web, play games, or, as most commonly used, to look up porn. It works for it's purpose, but you know that it's not the best. You use it, but only because you have to, and are too afraid to put in the time and money of getting a real computer that doesn't shit itself and die every time you look at it too hard.

It's lot like a bad prostitute.

Dude 1: Hey man, so hows your Windows Computer doing?
Dude 2: Not so good. I mean, it works, but every time I'm using it I always scream out "MACINTOSH!" by mistake.

by TheVampireKow October 18, 2009

windows update

(n.) - A utility installed on most newer Windows OS's, which is used for simple minded folk to easily ""fix"" the holes in common windows programs.

i. Bob doesn't understand how to update his computer in a proper manner, so he uses windows update instead.

by Agent Spork November 13, 2003