when you put all your work off to the last minute and are forced to decide which matters most to you and which can be realistically finished. Also, one has to take into mind which classes would be most affected by not completing the work, and which assignment is worth the most points.
thinking to yourself: "Alright its the night before the religion test but ive also got math and spanish work to do. Time to set up the homework triage! Ill do the math, guess through the spanish and write Jesus for all the answers on the religion test. That'll give me the best results while still being able to get in sleep."
An emergency measure aimed at finding something - anything - edible in the fridge. Usually performed by dividing the contents into the palatable, the slightly dicy and the utterly unspeakable.
Two days before payday Jamie was forced to perform fridge triage, and ended up with a large, festering pile of black sludge that growled when he approached, several yogurts that were only a few weeks past their expiry date, and a perfectly edible stick of celery.