Food items marketed as wasabi, but having little or no actual wasabi, which is rare and costly. Horseradish and vinegar are used as substitute flavors and natural coloring (light green) is added.
Bummer! I bought this expensive wasabi mayo, only to find that it has almost no real wasabi. Should be called fauxsabi, man.
One who rents a residence with roommates and yet spends all their time at a lover's residence instead. The place is only rented for rationalization, to take the pressure off the relationship and to keep parents from getting mad at you for "living in sin."
"The place is sweet. It's got a huge living room, perfect for parties, and my roommate's a fauxhabitator so I got the place to myself!"
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.