Tom Sawyered

To be convinced that something that is to your benefit is actually harming you. This is similar to when Tom Sawyer convinces the neighborhood kids that his chore of whitewashing a fence is actually the most fun thing ever, to the point of getting items for letting them do his dirty work for him.

Someone who uses elaborate plots, schemes, lies, or manipulations in order to get out of responsibility and/or grift someone.

The attempted use of elaborate plots, schemes, lies, or manipulations in order to get out of responsibility and/or grift someone.

Or the succesful attempt of elaborate plots, schemes, lies, or manipulations in order to get out of responsibility and/or grift someone.

1. One of Canadian Supergroup Rush's best known songs.

2. The poster song for Rush. Basically the song people know when they pretend to like Rush to gain respect of a friend who likes rush.

That one song by a given band that everyone knows, even if they know nothing else by the band.

Named for the song by Rush.

In the South along the Mississippi River, a Tom Sawyer is a lynched black man hanging from a tree whose roots are in the river--making the tree seemingly grow from the riverbed.

When you ask someone to play Rush and they play Tom Sawyer

Based on the character from classic American literature, it is the act of tricking someone into doing things they would normally never do voluntarily, all the while having them believe they are the one getting over on you.