Two adults married or non-married living together, both working jobs. Only supporting themselves, or being without children. In other words, Double Income No Children or DINC
Michael Scott from the television show "The Office" uses this phrase to relate to Darryl from the warehouse during a racial dispute. Darryl describes it as," you know, things us negroes say."
Darryl - "we just have a lot of stuff down there that could be stolen."
Michael - "thats ironic."
Darryl - "what?"
Michael - "that you are afraid."
Darryl - "why? cause i'm from da hood?"
Michael - "...dincan flicka."
Darryl - "*sigh*... dincan flicka."
That stage in a poker tournament where you get a 10 dollar food coupon , a level or two before mincash , defraying your cost by 10 dollars at Borgata poker events and leaving you not fully empty handed in case you bubble.
"Well at least I got a dincash on the almighty and got a 10 dollar rebate on my two bullets. "
"You gotta use those dincash tickets before the end of the main and izikaya won't take them for izikaya Mondays"
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.