A practice in European Union, when its Member State adds new (and often more demanding) requirements to those that are expected in common legislation - mainly directives. Sometimes caused by overzealous bureaucrats, sometimes it is just their pure idiocy.
Bureaucrat 1: Recipients of this EU schemes are asked to submit invoices upon the end of the project.
Bureaucrat 2: Let's also ask them to write a 100-page long end-of-mission report, 10 testimonies of beneficiaries and copies of Annual reports 10 years back.
Bureaucrat 1: But that is gold-plating!
Bureaucrat 2: Sure, but we do not really want European money.
Bureaucrat 2: Let's also ask them to write a 100-page long end-of-mission report, 10 testimonies of beneficiaries and copies of Annual reports 10 years back.
Bureaucrat 1: But that is gold-plating!
Bureaucrat 2: Sure, but we do not really want European money.
by Blavak Mike February 5, 2019
Get the gold-platingmug. What you pretend-irritably toss back at present company when he "foreign languages you" with a casual request for or an acknowledgment of your assistance. (Obviously this would not be da case wif Gomez Addams, though, since he actually ENJOYS when Morticia speaks French, and so he would never feel irritable or resentful if she uttered thus to him.)
Person A, collecting small dropped objects from a pebbly beach, and passing them one-by-one to Person B to hold for him: S'il vous plait?
Person B, obligingly accepting said items from Person A, but feeling a bit disgusted at seemingly being utilized as merely a portable storage-unit: Silver plates?!
Person B, obligingly accepting said items from Person A, but feeling a bit disgusted at seemingly being utilized as merely a portable storage-unit: Silver plates?!
by QuacksO August 10, 2024
Get the Silver plates?!mug. When you order food at a restaurant and don't finish everything on your plate. You should feel shame at this point.
by New Jersey Nick September 19, 2011
Get the Shame Platemug. Noun, when a person has diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and renal deficiency. Usually caused by eating a lifetime of Fiesta Plates. Occurs in about 80% of the Guam population.
Nurse - "Hey Doc, we just got a guy check into the ER"
Doc - "What's his past medical history?"
Nurse - "He's got the fiesta plate special"
Doc - "fuck"
Doc - "What's his past medical history?"
Nurse - "He's got the fiesta plate special"
Doc - "fuck"
by Milo277 August 17, 2015
Get the Fiesta Plate Specialmug. When you cuddling with the homies and you start to get a hard-on, so you put a plate between you guys so your penis doesn't slip into your homies booty cheeks.
Yo, I pulled a plate blanket on Adam last night but my boner was too hard and it shattered the plate and my pp went inside him.
by cambonie May 4, 2020
Get the Plate Blanketmug. if you meet a kaylie plate, run away as fast as you can because she’s the biggest THOTatron you’ll ever meet. never look back, just run. but. if you get to know her, she’s alright. i guess.
i just met kaylie plate. and i’ve learned that she makes more of less no sense and enjoys listening to shed eeran.
by dogger147742789 June 5, 2018
Get the kaylie platemug. To be pyscidellicly in tuned with god and produce lucid dreaming and to fall victim of waking up stunned.
by G swing September 9, 2015
Get the Trap platemug.