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. Any plate or plate program (license plate or dinner plate) that you have an affinity for or a strong liking for or attraction to someone or something.
The Royal Family is announcing the release of a new Affinity Plate this year commemorating the passing of someone important and obviously Royal and to whom they had an affinity for.
or,
Some license plate program that ensures that Google will get a lot of traffic from people who have no idea what affinity plates mean.
or,
Some license plate program that ensures that Google will get a lot of traffic from people who have no idea what affinity plates mean.
by Pussycat503 May 5, 2021
Get the Affinity Platemug. by silverseal September 18, 2011
Get the Grand Sausage Platemug. Plate Curling is when you must stand at any edge of the table and either with or without your eyes shut you must Curl your plate which will determine where you will sit for the Evening Dinner.
by RonocMcfoley November 21, 2011
Get the Plate Curlingmug. To assume attributes of a driver’s ability according to the State of issue of the car’s number plate.
“All cars from Kansas drive slowly in the overtaking lane.” “ Hey, that’s Number Plate Racism.”
“All Californians drive stoned.”
“All New Yorkers drive too fast.”
“All Californians drive stoned.”
“All New Yorkers drive too fast.”
by On the level [---o---] July 2, 2024
Get the number plate racismmug. A sexual act in which a women shits on a man and uses her body to rub it all over him, then proceeds to shoot him with a water gun filled with her urine.
by mercxz May 9, 2024
Get the Texas Plate Jobmug.