plate licker
a person who goes to seminars just for the free food
TRANSLATION
plate licker = jmd. der an einer Verkaufspräsentation (für z.B. Immobilien oder Finanzprodukte) nur teilnimmt, um kostenloses Essen zu bekommen --- GOOGLE INDEX licker: approximately 4,530,000 Google hits Plate Lickers Anonymous: 207,000 plate licker: 10,000
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How To Stop Feeding PLATE LICKERS Once And For All
(from an Internet marketing advisor portal)
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Become a professional PLATE LICKER to lower your food costs. With food prices continually rising, this is a good strategy, and my mom saves hundreds of dollars every month implementing this plan.
(www.moneyshow.com)
(from an Internet marketing advisor portal)
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Become a professional PLATE LICKER to lower your food costs. With food prices continually rising, this is a good strategy, and my mom saves hundreds of dollars every month implementing this plan.
(www.moneyshow.com)
Did you
know?
plate licker
noun phrase, slang (usually used in an ironic or derogatory sense)
- a person who goes to insurance, financial or real estate sales presentations where free food is served
(The Urban Dictionary)
- a person who eats everything on their plate and leaves it clean as if they licked it (generally used to describe someone who can't seem to get enough to eat)
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Florida resident Earl Bronsteen had a rather unique New Year's resolution in 2010. He planned to do something many thought impossible, even unthinkable. He set out to eat 50 free lunches at financial seminars. He thus became public enemy No. 1 to some financial advisors. For one year, Earl Bronsteen was a professional plate licker.
When asked if he had gained any weight, the 86-year-old laughed and said:
"No. The meals all balanced out. For every dinner of filet mignon, I had a couple of soggy tuna salad sandwiches." In other words, not all seminar meals are created equal.
After reading a report that said six million Americans age fifty-five or older attended a free lunch or dinner investment seminar over the past three years, he said with a touch of humour that "I felt depressed when I read the report, because it meant I missed out on at least 5,999,992 free lunches."
(adapted from the Lifehealthpro online insurance portal)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"You'll find no plate lickers at our events, we only invite key customers."
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Thanks to Ron for suggesting today's word!
noun phrase, slang (usually used in an ironic or derogatory sense)
- a person who goes to insurance, financial or real estate sales presentations where free food is served
(The Urban Dictionary)
- a person who eats everything on their plate and leaves it clean as if they licked it (generally used to describe someone who can't seem to get enough to eat)
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Florida resident Earl Bronsteen had a rather unique New Year's resolution in 2010. He planned to do something many thought impossible, even unthinkable. He set out to eat 50 free lunches at financial seminars. He thus became public enemy No. 1 to some financial advisors. For one year, Earl Bronsteen was a professional plate licker.
When asked if he had gained any weight, the 86-year-old laughed and said:
"No. The meals all balanced out. For every dinner of filet mignon, I had a couple of soggy tuna salad sandwiches." In other words, not all seminar meals are created equal.
After reading a report that said six million Americans age fifty-five or older attended a free lunch or dinner investment seminar over the past three years, he said with a touch of humour that "I felt depressed when I read the report, because it meant I missed out on at least 5,999,992 free lunches."
(adapted from the Lifehealthpro online insurance portal)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"You'll find no plate lickers at our events, we only invite key customers."
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Thanks to Ron for suggesting today's word!
