Ear Poisoner

a person that acts to subvert another by influencing those around him.

"I was fired because that ear poisoner Brad told the office that I stole paper clips."

"I was skating on easy street until Bob decided to be an ear poisoner and convince them to charge me rent for sleeping on the couch."

by HolyMeat September 14, 2009

Social Prisoner

A sincere, friendly prisoner who utilizes the time while incarcerated to develop and maintain positive and meaningful friendships.

A social prisoner establishes and maintains healthy friendships inside prison as well as outside. Often, social prisoners also make use of the time to learn skills and seek an education.

by Lexicon reader November 4, 2011

prisoner of the moment

1) Someone who thinks recent results will lead to the same results in the long term.
2) Someone who is focusing on something that just happened rather than the big picture.

3) Someone who's focus is narrow, focusing on the short term rather than the long term.
4) Often used as another term for "Recency bias".

Billy complained that his favorite sports team's season was over after they lost a game several weeks ago, but he was just a prisoner of the moment because they actually ended up winning the Championship.

by Revel8 October 8, 2018

the prisoner’s dilemma

When a person has been arrested and during their interrogation is wondering what to say based on their awareness of what the other witnesses may be saying.

So as Ambassador Gordon Sondland got some distance from his statements made weeks ago under oath, he began to experience the true depth and extent of the prisoner’s dilemma which of course led him to finally correct his testimony.

by Dr Bunnygirl November 5, 2019

Irony poisoned

When someone perceives nearly everything through multiple layers of irony, and nothing through sincerity. This could extend to someone not being able to sincerely express their own beliefs without someone else thinking they’re being ironic or Insincere. And it could also extend to the inability of someone to take sincerity coming from others at face value, or being skeptical of it.

Person 1: I really enjoy X
Person 2: I bet you only like it because it’s secretly a coping mechanism for something else.
Person 1: it’s not, you’re brain is just irony poisoned

by L+Ratio? May 25, 2022

prisoner of fun

That wild and crazy person who is trapped in an inescapable cycle of compulsive hilarity.

Gary had coined the phrase and would always be the progenitor of the prisoner of fun lifestyle.

by Dr Bunnygirl March 13, 2019

Prisoner of the Present

1. A person whose entire worldview is shaped by current events, stumbling along from one crisis to another.
2. Someone without a historical perspective or hope for the future.
3. The mindset that causes "knee-jerk" reactions to almost any kind of social or economic change.
4. A state of perpetual panic about "the world today."

Larry says the U.S. economy will never recover no matter what happens in Washington -- he's a typical Prisoner of the Present.

by Peter Kobs June 4, 2009