When you like someone or something to a point, but after a little while it starts to get on your nerves and continued exposure makes you feel like biting a steel rod in two.
A phrase used by people who have never smelt chloroform and/or those who don't know how chloroform actually works. Supposedly the person will pass out after sniffing a rag soaked in chloroform like in the movies, but in reality they would think it's some kind of cleaning fluid with fragrance if it hasn't evaporated in less than a minute.
He asked "does this smell like chloroform" before handing me a rag that seemed to be wet. I said "yes, that's trichloroethylene and it smells like chloroform"
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.