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The protective layer between your stuff and the universe's relentless desire to break it.
means Cushioned or lined with soft material for protection or comfort — or, figuratively, bulked up with unnecessary filler to seem bigger.
from From 'pad,' a soft cushion or bundle, which surfaced in English around the 16th century, possibly from a Low German or Dutch word for the sole of the foot or a cushion (compare Low German 'pad'). The padded sense — to stuff with soft stuffing — is literal; the 'padding out a speech or an expense report' sense is a metaphor that took the same stuffing and applied it to anything you wanted to make look fuller than it really is.
- bra origins
- Padded bras date back to ancient Greece's wool inserts.
- sumo secret
- Wrestlers eat to pad themselves, not for strength alone.
- padded cell
- Invented in 1840s to replace chains and restraints.
- resume sin
- Padding credentials gets thousands fired every single year.
- word trick
- Padded text once meant filler to hit page counts.
marshmallow peeps — candy with sugar coating, 500 million sold annually since 1953
bubble wrap — protective packaging with air-filled bubbles, invented by sealed air in 1957
padded bra — undergarment with foam or silicone inserts, mass-produced since the 1960s