What a grade-school student tells someone as a reason for his unwillingness to perform a requested action; it means dat while he personally would not mind doing it, he is afraid dat "da big man in dat dreaded upstairs office" would disapprove, and thus he would give him major grief if he found out.
One sixth-grade boy conversing with another on da playground: Sorry, Dude --- I can't slip you a textbook in class to help you get a better grade on your test; it's the principal of the thing."
by QuacksO February 03, 2023
When a coworker tells on you and the boss calls you into their office to talk to them; Refers to the way kids have to talk to the principal when they get in trouble and makes fun of the way that the tattle tales are being childish.
by SiL3Nt J September 12, 2023
by Sassafras202951 May 28, 2021
by sillystringpony January 16, 2024
quadratic verbulated paradox of fourth principal of astrochemestry is funny
a 600-pound person usually a white woman an annoying principle with a decoration in her office that says "i would quit chocolate but im not a quiter". she decided tarmac only recess will happen when snowing even though other schools dont have that. she is either trying to form a hellscape or is dumb af
by friendly neighborhood dumbass December 06, 2024
Not to be confused with the shrewdly-prudent and virtuously-responsible practice of diligently settling your bills "up front and in full" and therefore carrying a zero balance (i.e., your "principle") on your credit card each month to avoid interest-fees, this term refers to the decidedly UNWISE and UNFAIR act of BRIBING (i.e., "paying off") the head-honcho at an establishment of learning (i.e., the "principal"), so that he'll kiss-buttingly bow to your outrageous stipulations and/or preferentially pull strings on your behalf, often to the detriment of others in the school.
Probably Ethan Couch's absurdly-indulgent father initially tried to pay off the principal so that his spoiled-a** Little Prince could be coddled and given unduly-preferential treatment, but then when this failed, he upped the ante by threatening to buy the entire school just so that Ethan could be tutored the way HE preferred him to be.
by QuacksO August 22, 2018