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NateTheGreat
Since: Jan, 2001
You're cleaning, but there's a little pile of debris left and you don't want to go through the effort of disposing of it properly. So you just toss it where it won't be found immediately. The most common version of this is sweeping the dust under a rug, but there are other variants:
- In the pilot for Friends Chandler and Joey have been assembling a bookcase for Ross, but there's a piece left that they don't know what to do with. So they just hide it in a nearby potted plant.
- Subverted in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A pair of chipmunks are in the process of sweeping the dust under the rug, but Snow White chides them. So they shove it into a mouse hole instead.
Does this already exist? Edited by NateTheGreat