slow lobster boil
When the hot water you’re in is getting hotter so slowly that you don’t grasp the danger you’re in until it’s too late.
I was just a few steps away from death when I was pulled from that slow lobster boil of a workplace.
slow Pompeo lobster boil
Slang for Pompeo’s slow decline into political death as all of his obscenely piggish and self-aggrandizing acts come to light.
We are all watching the slow Pompeo lobster boil; he is already apparently losing consciousness as he lamely tries to defend himself.