The act of putting on a sugary-sweet and polite persona to someone's face (or out in public), but being snide, catty, and mean when their back is turned.
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The fake friendliness and hospitality demonstrated (particularly in the American South/ Southeast) to total strangers, exemplified by "Southern hospitality".
"Watch out: my mother-in-law will be very charming when she offers you some of her sweet tea, but she's just Paula Deening and will start complaining about everything from your clothes to your accent just as soon as you're out of earshot."
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brownwill also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.