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friend-masking 

when someone on a dating app uses pictures only with their hotter friends to hide their identity as the uglier friend in the group. they have no individual pictures on their profile.
"Bro this guy only has photos of him with his more attractive friends on his profile. I can just tell he's the short king with a bad haircut."
"It's because he's friend-masking!"
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I'm asking for a friend 

A lie told on the internet in a futile attempt to lessen embarrassment after asking an embarrassing question.
"Is it weird to find anthropomorphic foxes sexy? I'm asking for a friend."

Making Friends with herself 

She was in the bedroom all night "making friends with herself"
Making Friends with herself by Stickky September 29, 2009

Making friends 

Something impossible; the act of conversationing till you reach the unknown point of “friends”
Mom leave me alone I wanna be famous.

Ok just as long as you are making friends.
Making friends by HUDYURBUDDY January 4, 2024

Just another way of making new friends 

; an idiom used sarcastically concerning any individual who's rude or abusive towards others verbally or physically.
Now that was so wrong. Guess it's just another way of making new friends?
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So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
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Northstarring

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.
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