Sticky Widget
When you're playing a FPS game i.e. Battlefield 3, and a baddie throws a grenade which lands at your feet - there's nothing you can do but say 'Ah crap' and die.
Nick: How did you die? I was going to spawn on you.
Me: Ah man, I got sticky widgeted, nothing I could do.
Nick: That's how the cookie crumbles.
Me: Ah man, I got sticky widgeted, nothing I could do.
Nick: That's how the cookie crumbles.
sticky widget
(stik-EE widge-ET, likely American)
Contradiction or intellectual impasse. A corruption of the phrase sticky wicket, describing a tricky situation in the game of cricket. The substitution of widget for wicket suggests a substitution of a more familiar word given most Americans' ignorance of the game.
see also sticking point, widget.
Contradiction or intellectual impasse. A corruption of the phrase sticky wicket, describing a tricky situation in the game of cricket. The substitution of widget for wicket suggests a substitution of a more familiar word given most Americans' ignorance of the game.
see also sticking point, widget.
Dick: "I wonder which holds greater cosmic import -- the ontology of giraffes or Polynesian linguistics."
Jane: "What a sticky widget. Let's go get some Burger King."
Jane: "What a sticky widget. Let's go get some Burger King."