round tuit

plural round tuits

1. UKUShumorousA circular object supposedly giving its owner the ability to get done everything that would have otherwise been put off to a later date "when they got around to it".First known use late 20th c.

   Your magazine meant to report on the club's resolve long ago, but in the press of time and space—you guessed it—we never got "A Round Tuit."

   1977 September, “This Rotary World: The Clubs in Action”, in Willmon L. White, editor, The Rotarian: An International Magazine, volume 131, number 3, Evanston, Ill.: Rotary International, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39, column 2

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   Hawkins-Corlew ’round tuit [repeated caption on a circle] […] How many things have you missed, cause you never got round tuit? Well … we’re getting round tuit now. A sale on EVERYTHING that bears the CHEVY name, that we have in stock …

   [1971 July 11, “Hawkins-Corlew’s Round Tuit [advertisement]”, in James E. Charlet, Jr., editor, Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle, volume 162, number 158, Clarksville, Tenn.: Leaf-Chronicle Company, →OCLC, page [9-B]

   Almost everyone seems to be collecting something or other these days, and I am collecting round tuits. As of now I have a metal round tuit, a sticker round tuit and three round tuits clipped from publications – one being this column in The Republic, so perhaps that one really doesn't count. […] Who needs a round tuit? – why, just about everyone. How many times have you and I told ourselves or someone else that we would follow through on something just as soon as we got a round tuit. Now there was one for everyone – so no more excuses.

   1975 May 19, Jean Prather, “Worth mentioning: Collection of round tuits grows”, in Stewart E. Huffman, editor, The Republic, Columbus, Ind.: Robert N. Brown, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A6, column 2

   Tired of being told, "I'll do it as soon as I get A ROUND TUIT"? Now you can give A ROUND TUIT to your favorite procrastinator(s) as a gentle hint to get "around to it." A ROUND TUIT … the only "Cure" for Procrastination … is a beautifully designed, solid bronze coin that serves as a constant reminder to get things done.

   1979 October, “CURE PROCRASTINATION!! with A ROUND TUIT™ [advertisement]”, in Texas Monthly, Austin, Tex.: Mediatex Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 164, columns 1–2

   How often have you asked a co-worker for help … a boss for guidance … a subordinate for a memo … a clerk for a file … or considered doing something yourself … … only to hear or say "OK—when I get a round tuit!" Well here you have it! A round tuit! Now you have no excuse! You've got a round tuit of your very own … now get off your duffs and do all those things you've been putting off until you got a round tuit! Instructions: just cut out your round tuit, compliments of Supercrat and State Magazine, hang it in your office … and get to work!

   1990 August–September, Chip Beck, “Supercrat: The Super Bureaucrat: ‘A Round Tuit’ [cartoon]”, in Sanford Watzman, editor, State: The Newsletter, number 336, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of State, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Many students mean to express value to one another but they never get around to it. Make a "round tuit" for each student by tying the ends of a 3-foot rope together. Scatter several round tuits on the ground and have each student stand in one. Tell half the group to move clockwise and the other group to move counterclockwise and step in as many "round tuits" as time allows. If someone else is in the "round tuit" they step in, they must tell that person an "I value you because …" statement before moving on.

   2003, Kara Eckmann, Duffy Robbins [et al.], “Extreme Friendship”, in Rick Wesselhoff, editor, Can I Really Relate? (Custom Curriculum), Colorado Springs, Colo.: NexGen, Cook Communications Ministries, →ISBN, page 119, column 1