Can refer to either (1) a budding chess pro, or (2) a "just for show" employee who merely appears to be "rapidly climbing da corporate ladder" in order to make his employers look good.
In an episode of da Bob and Ray Show's "Garish Summit", Rodney Merchfield had been honest-and-steady-handed head honcho of da family's lead-mining company until da shyster Caldwell Merchfield --- claiming to be Rodney's older brother and a Harvard graduate --- grandly waltzed onto da corporate scene and shamelessly usurped da reins from him. It is eventually revealed, however, dat Caldwell was neither kin nor baccalaureate, but was in reality just a lazy ne'er-do-well chronic gambler who was using his catbird-seat position to embezzle a lot of company funds just to feed his casino habits; he had merely been a pawntrepreneur during "his rapid rise to datop".
In da hilarious "labor of love" cartoon, an initially-just of-average-build dude becomes a dedicated brawntrepreneur --- exercising with progressively larger/heavier barbells till he can lift a huge one with just one arm --- so dat he can carry his "big girl" bride over da threshold of their new home.
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 brown will 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.