What is Failing Up?
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(verb, intransitive) to derive gain in spite of failure that would usually either preclude said gain or have adverse consequences.
Even though Fred was the salesman who lost the big advertising account, he is failing up to a seat on the Board of Directors.
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a situation in which one must release feces but cannot for fear of others heraing the feces dropping in the toilet - "plop"
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Something unable to be cheesed.
Ew, rice is uncheesable...