What is Petered?
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1. When someone cuts you off when you are speaking because you are taking too long to say something.
2. Being told to get to the point because you are speaking too slow.
3. Verbose speaking leads to being hurried up.
Hank was petered during his presentation because it took him 15 minutes to finish a sentence.
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A polite way of telling someone that things are more difficult because someone got in your way. (Peter being a slang term used to refer to male genitalia; screwed)
I would have had this project done but I got petered.
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TELEPHONE.
Self explanatory.
I believe this is a mainly Aussie expression in rhyming slang, but may be used within the sound of the be..
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An insignificant fiefdom, given to bizarre political intrigues and petty bullying, often headed by one suffering from a Napoleon Complex..
