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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shit rolls up hill

"Shit rolls up hill" describes the tendency for unworthy or incompetent personnel to be promoted. The primary reason why shit rolls down hill.

We only got this stupid assignment because sometimes shit rolls up hill.

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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."

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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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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rathole file

This is where documents procrastinate after apathetic organization has rodented (is that a word yet? I mean ferreted and squirreled are verbs, but there are plenty of rodents that succinctly define the behavior) them away to an innocuous corner of of an administrative employee's office.

How did you find the Jonathon estate contract? That wasn't in his folder.

I just dug it out of the rathole file. Looks like the last signature on it is five years old.