'The Fear' is the concept of quitting your current job that you don't like in order to give you the motivation to pursue your dream job.

From Friends episode The One Where Rachel Quits (310)
RACHEL: I'm training to be better at a job that I hate, my life officially sucks.
JOEY: Look Rach, wasn't this supposed to a temporary thing? I thought you wanted to do fashion stuff?
RACHEL: Well, yeah! I'm still pursuing that.
CHANDLER: How... exactly are you pursuing that? Y'know other than sending out resumes like what, two years ago?
RACHEL: Well, I'm also sending out.... good thoughts.
JOEY: If you ask me, as long as you got this job, you've got nothing pushing you to get another one. You need the fear.
RACHEL: The fear?
CHANDLER: He's right, if you quit this job, you then have motivation to go after a job you really want.
RACHEL: Well then how come you're still at a job that you hate, I mean why don't you quit and get 'the fear'?
CHANDLER: Because, I'm too afraid.
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Feeling usual associated with loss of something e.g. 'movie ticket, etc'.
Feeling grows more intense closer to need of said item.
Boo- Lets go get our theatre seats.
Dave- Shit dude, I got 'the fear', I swear l put the ticket right in this pocket.
by phatcatslimm March 6, 2004
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Someone who can embed the fear of death into your subconscious. A person who you don't want to cross in any way
As the man walked into the room, all activity ceased. For the ambience he released forced even the hardiest of men to shiver. The look of death in his eyes made him "feared" by many.
by SaiyanRage March 5, 2014
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fear is what pussy have

its a trait that you get when your born with dumb parents usually on crack
i am fear
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A sugarcoated excuse for one to hide their true motives which is to act out of self-interest.
What is fear?

Fear is a feeling people use to claim they feel harmed not knowing they will do something that harms people they once feared.
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The Emotion a living thing feels in a circumstance in which the natural fight or flight instinct can only/naturally reacts with flight. This is due to the mindset that whatever the feared thing is/has more power/is more powerful.

(things like spiders or insects don't actually cause fear, they just cause a type of unsettling and/or disgusting feeling which we define as fear)
"I have a fear of monsters"
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A dark or colorless trans dimentional phantom which feeds from the energy that a soul gives off when exposed to negitive thoughts or memories.
last night i could not sleep because THE FEAR were feeding on my negative thoughts and memories.
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