Failing Up

What is Failing Up?

(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.

See failure, incompetence

Creen

1. another term for the butthole My creen is so sore from eating so much Mexican last night. I had a rough night on the shitter. See cree..

Innoshit

1. describes a person who claims to be innocent, but tells conflicting stories and is therefore known to be full of shit. He told differen..

Roger Williams University

1. A school full of some of the biggest tools I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. A plague of douchebags ruining the beautiful area the s..

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