(1) A purse containing everything but the kitchen sink!
(2) A purse that one must pull out the strangest items in order to get to what they're looking for.
(3) A purse that is tiny, but apprears to hold huge amount of items in it.
(4) A purse one must dump out the entire contents of to get one small item out.
I got stuck behind a woman with a Mary Poppins Purse at the supermarket. This crazy lady had to take out everything in her purse just to get to her wallet. She had playing cards, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, dental floss, 3 bottles of pills, and whole lot of other junk just dumped on the counter. It was a small purse, too. I can't believe it holds all that stuff!
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.