trick bag

A scheme, manipulation, or situation that seemed legitimate, honest and/or innocent, at first. Usually referred to at time when it may or may not be too late to avoid the full consequences and/or embarrassment.

“My mortgage ended up a lot more expensive than they implied. The bank put me in a ‘trick bag’, but I had already moved my family in.”

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Jockocracy

(rarely spelled as "jocktocracy")

A scholastic environment (usually college/university, sometimes high school) where sports/athletics are placed as the highest priority of “education”, above (often far above) all others. Sports/athletic participants (“jocks”) are viewed, by those in charge, as the greatest heroes of this environment. They are usually aware of this, and take unfair advantage of it – usually exerting unfair influence on non-jocks, and non-athletic instructors. Often, they get away with this more freely than others would. (This usually drags down the actual educational standards of the entire institution.)

Commercial work situations managed by rabid sports fans can have a similar situation.

Funding for math and science were cut, again, because this is a jockocracy.

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