From The Wizard of Oz when the Munchkin coroner declares the witch most sincerely dead. Now commonly used for comatose organ donors who have been declared brain dead.
ICU Nurse: "We've got a comatose head trauma with a signed donor card. Just declared brain dead, so you can assemble the harvest team stat."
Transplant coordinator: "How dead is he?"
ICU Nurse: "Oh, he's really most sincerely dead."
A phenomenon in where one song on an album feels out of place due to it not matching any other song on the album, comparable to the track Sincerely Me from the Dear Evan Hansen movie, which is an odd Black Comedy song on an otherwise mostly sincere and heartfelt soundtrack.
Tim: ever notice how I'm Gonna Win by Rob Cantor is weirdly different to all the other songs on his Not a Trampoline album?
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 flying everywhere, 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 brown will 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.