exit strategy

A method of suicide reserved for contingency. A poison pill.

I have an exit strategy in case they interrogate me.

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umu

It's an archaic Japanese interjection meaning 'yea', 'uh huh'. In modern Japanese fiction it's used similar to いい (ii) in that it can be used as an affirmative or positive ("Yes, that's good"), noncommittally or resignedly ("fine, alright") or dismissively ("Enough!")

"Do you want to play shougi"?
"Umu, I sure do! Where shall we play?"

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with all due respect

In military parlance it means 'no more respect than protocol requires me to show'. Opposite of the term: 'with respect'.

Said to a superior, a means of veiling contempt adequately enough to evade disciplinary action (depending on the words following it.) Applied frequently by top brass toward Congressmen during Senate Committee Hearings.

Said to a subordinate (rarely,) it sarcastically emphasizes how little respect the superior is required to SHOW, and how much less they're required to HAVE for the subordinate.

Commander Knox: Admiral, with all due respect, this is my boat.
Admiral Graham: Not anymore, "with all due respect".

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shit rolls down hill

In military parlance it means anything crappy coming from the top of the chain of command will hit everyone down to the bottom. This includes dumbass decision making, disciplinary actions, or simply a superior taking his frustrations out on subordinates.

Privates, I'm knee deep in your ass right now because the 1st Sgt was knee-deep in my ass this morning, and shit rolls down hill!

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pee shy

Unable to urinate for any psychological or physiological reason.

"Dude, you were in there for a long time!"
"Yeah, it gets pee shy after I drink this much beer. It took 5 minutes just to get it running, then I had to sphincter out the tail."

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fridge anxiety

The fear that something terrible will happen to someone close to you just because they're close to you.

Occupational hazard of protagonists. Not very untrue to life.

Kyle swore he would never let anyone die like her. But he and Pete, Bruce and Ben have been occupied with fridge anxiety ever since.

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aural dyslexia

A momentary fugue characterized by a lapse of comprehension in verbal communication in a language the listener is normally fluent in. The individual words may be understood, but somehow they fail to coalesce in meaning.

Sometimes this occurs from a statement made completely out of context, but it can also spontaneously arise from an otherwise clear flow of conversation.

"Don't make her laugh, though. You won't like the sound of it."
"...what?"
"repeats verbatim"
"Don't repeat it, rephrase it! I'm having aural dyslexia."