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A bribe wearing comfortable shoes, paid for the privilege of getting paid.
means A secret payment given to someone in return for arranging or favoring a deal, typically a slice handed back to whoever steered the money your way.
from A plain compound of "kick" + "back," American business slang of the early-to-mid 20th century. The image is literal: money flowing one direction gets a portion "kicked back" the other way, returned under the table to the person who made the payment possible. The same verb "kick back" also wandered off into the harmless sense of relaxing — same words, very different conscience.
- chair physics
- Recliners turned the verb into a lifestyle
- recoil cousin
- Guns kick back; so does your conscience
- FCPA fuel
- Whole laws exist just to outlaw it
- loop logic
- Money returns to the hand that steered it
abscam bribery scandal — fbi sting that caught 6 us congressmen accepting $50,000+ cash bribes in 1980-1981
fifa world cup corruption — qatar 2022 world cup awarded via alleged $110 million payments to fifa officials, exposed 2020
halliburton iraq contracts — defense contractor received $39.5 billion in iraq war contracts with overcharges and kickback schemes, 2003-2013