A deep-psychological thought that one thinks about when they win without any effort or in a different situation that is awkward. This also can cause some emotional feelings.
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Get the But at what cost? mug.The cost of choosing one course of action over another. Letting your second best option pass.
Economists tend to measure opportunity cost in terms of money for simplicity's sake. However value isn't always monetary.
Economists tend to measure opportunity cost in terms of money for simplicity's sake. However value isn't always monetary.
At the restaurant, you are presented with a desert menu. Assuming that you only eat one desert, you have the choice between chocolate mouse, ice cream and honey crepes. Let's say you prefer ice cream to chocolate mouse, but honey crepes are your favorite. If you eat a honey crepe, ice cream (which would have chosen had you not had crepes) is your opportunity cost.
Another example would be if two women that you fancied, Sarah and Alice, asked you out and you said yes to Sarah (assuming monogamy), going out with Alice is your opportunity cost.
Another example would be if two women that you fancied, Sarah and Alice, asked you out and you said yes to Sarah (assuming monogamy), going out with Alice is your opportunity cost.
by anthonylebrun November 3, 2008
Get the opportunity cost mug.'No cost too great' is an iconic and recurring line said by the Pale King from the game Hollow Knight. It is often humorously used in situations where a person does something that is too much work, just to reach their goal, e.g. sacrificing thousands of your children just to chain and lock one for years to contain a moth God.
Person 1: "YOUR HIGHNESS, ISN'T THIS A BIT TOO MUCH?"
Person 2: "No cost too great."
Person 1: "SIRE, YOUR CHILD IS BURNING!"
Person 2: "No cost too great."
Person 1: "SIRE, YOUR CHILD IS BURNING!"
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Get the No cost too great mug.When your roommate in college obtains rubber gloves from an unknown source and proceeds to offer you a discounted prostate exam, so long as you return the favor. After making sure you are both cancer free and ready to set up shop, you proceed to start an ass check factory in your dorm room. It is not uncommon to invite certain faculty members, janitors, teachers, and hall mates into your makeshift clinic for a quick "slip of the shitter." Most clients leave humiliated, stained, and with a loose butthole. Despite willing (some unwilling) customers dissatisfaction, they often remark that it is still far better than going to a regular doctors office.
Undergraduate History Major: "Hey Dr. Travis, would you like me to put a gloved fist inside of your asshole and wiggle it around? We call it the Low Cost Dorm Room Prostate Exam."
Interested Professor: "Well go again son, so long as you don't pull out the lightbulb I stuck up their last night while watching Judge Judy."
Undergraduate History Major: "It's free so long as you look me in the eyes and call me The Old Pretender."
Interested Professor: "Well go again son, so long as you don't pull out the lightbulb I stuck up their last night while watching Judge Judy."
Undergraduate History Major: "It's free so long as you look me in the eyes and call me The Old Pretender."
by TheSouLOfGenIus January 15, 2014
Get the Low Cost Dorm Room Prostate Exam mug.low cost dating in when the girl you are going out with is not expecting you to pay for every step she takes. especially in shopping streets.
Low cost girls on a date usually carry one wallet with real money in their purse and they're not afraid to use it.
synonyms: low cost date, lowcost dating, low cost ride
Low cost girls on a date usually carry one wallet with real money in their purse and they're not afraid to use it.
synonyms: low cost date, lowcost dating, low cost ride
Hey Dude the last one left me in panties.
I think I'll need some more low cost dating from now on.
Low cost dating is when at the end of date you spent only money for gas and taxes but the ride was for free.
Example of Lowcost dating prices
One way ride: 0.00;
Baggage Handling and Check in: free;
Gas and taxes: 4.99;
I think I'll need some more low cost dating from now on.
Low cost dating is when at the end of date you spent only money for gas and taxes but the ride was for free.
Example of Lowcost dating prices
One way ride: 0.00;
Baggage Handling and Check in: free;
Gas and taxes: 4.99;
by mave73 May 20, 2008
Get the low cost dating mug.Some stupid anti-smoking company that releases ridiculous ads on smoking/vaping using cgi transformers/dinobots, skin falling off, wooden teeth.
Basically it’s bullshit
Basically it’s bullshit
Karen: What are you doing smoking in my neighborhood, go look at The Real Cost and educate yourself!
Jake: Ma’am this is an inhaler
Jake: Ma’am this is an inhaler
by White Boy Smokes Weed February 9, 2021
Get the The real cost mug.When you go all out to impress a girl/boy and do whatever it takes to get her/his attention, even if it means sacrificing your time, energy, and money. But in the end, it often leaves you feeling emotionally drained and broke financially
John keeps going out with a girl to win her over but Sarah is never interested. This leaves John broke and broken-hearted each time. The simping cost was high, wasting his money and happiness on someone who didn't appreciate it.
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