gold-plating

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.

by Blavak Mike February 5, 2019

Plate-turner

N. A person with the odd dining habit of eating each item on their plate in its entirety before rotating the plate and eating the next one.

I was a plate-turner as a child: had to eat all of my pork chop first, then all of the green beans, then the mashed potatoes, rotating the plate each time so the next food item was directly in front of me.

by M.C. Slim JB October 22, 2010

go to the hot plate

what you say instead of go to hell

I hate you, you faggot. Go to the hot plate!

by agent smith June 25, 2004

half plate gomi

too full for a full plate, hungry enough for a half plate

Ivre, one half plate gomi

by Majorsuggs November 12, 2020

Plate Gravy

Everything that might be left left on the plate after a good barbecue (or breakfast). The stuff you sop up with a good Hawaiian Roll ( or toast).

I love cole slaw juice and corn butter in my plate gravy!

by Nerds99 January 6, 2024

Plate on the Floor

When you have to poop so bad, the poop is literally poking out that you'll have to put a plate on the floor to catch it

Big Bubba: Ya bum bitch. Where you at?
Big Homie Don: Yo, bro. I got a plate on the floor, be right back.
Big Bubba: Hecks naw.

by Habbibi's #1 fan March 29, 2021

Gimme that plate

When someone says something and think they did that

Child:your mama so fat she had to squeeze her cheeks when she goes to the toilet

Me: gimme that plate.. dumbass

by Blackgyall February 7, 2022