What is Paula Radcliffe?
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Noun: To do a paula radcliffe. The act of not bothering to make much of an effort to win something, unless there is a financial gain to be made. This applies especially when representing your country for nothing when you cannot be arsed compared to winning marathons by a mile where huge sums of cash are involved.
Neil: God I cannot wait to see the rowers at the next Olympic Games.
Nigel: Me too lets just hope they don't do a paula radcliffe on us and save themselves for the Henley Royal Regatta!
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To make everything seem anything, as in to exagerate everything
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Paula Radcliffe : I tripped over a pencil yesterday, i might not be able to compete in the next olympics which are in 4 years , actually i will try and pull through, i will, I CAN !!
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