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by ¯\_㋡_/¯ on Jun 12, 2021 01:01:12
Grounding
by sully521 on Sep 29, 2009 10:26:36
From gopher +
rounding.
When someone goes on a
food run and "rounds up" the price of your food, thus failing to give you change. Often "unintentional."
If you give someone $10 to go pick you up a Big Mac and you never get change, they've done some
grounding.
grounded
by Figleaf23 on Aug 09, 2007 23:38:12
1 (a).
electrical conductivity directed into the earth
1 (b). to be emotionally stable
2 (a). to have your flying privileges
suspended
2 (b). to be
confined to your home as a punishment
Example:
1(a) The computer wasn't properly grounded, so the power surge fried it.
1(b) I like having lunch with my aunt -- she's so sensible and grounded.
.
2(a) After he did a
victory roll just 200 feet over
the runway,
the Red Baron was grounded for a month.
2(b) When she woke up her whole family by coming in puking-drunk at 4am, Lindsay was grounded for a month.
grounded
by Anthony D j on Oct 13, 2005 06:52:12
Something
your parents do after proving them wrong in an aurgument. This can also
occur if you
point out that your parents often do the same thing they are mad at you for doing.
Example:
Parent "I told you to clean you room before
you left the house" Child "Didn't you just go shopping and isn't your bed not made?" Parent "
Your grounded"
on the ground
by Beer Stooge on Jan 04, 2007 07:26:47
The opposite of
a bird's eye view--describes a situation viewed up close or the people in a position to view a situation up close, in detail. Typically used by someone at a level of remove from the situation being discussed. George Bush uses this phrase frequently to describe the situation in Iraq or
the troops in Iraq--i.e., to refer to the reality, with which he is only faintly
acquainted.
Example:
the situation on the ground
the troops on the ground
Far off in Washington or at best confined to the Baghdad
Green Zone, the American leadership had only a vague knowledge of the actual situation on the ground, so the extent of
sectarian violence caught them by surprise and completely ruined their
luftslott dreams of democratizing the Middle East by deposing Saddam.