Nod off
Nodding is a slang expression for informal consent to decisions by nodding the head. In the hunter language it is used differently for a form of killing.
Colloquial language
If there is consensus on a decision in meetings or commissions , general agreement with a proposal can be indicated by nodding the head , and the chairman can dispense with voting on less important items on the agenda . On the other hand, the word is often used rather derogatory when decisions have already been made elsewhere (often in a "small circle", in the "back room), but formally another, larger committee only" gives its blessing to the decision afterwards ".
Similar non-verbal behaviors are expressed in the terms “knocking through” (for long meetings, e.g. of university bodies) or when “waving through” at national borders .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/politik/europa/2023108-Sozialdemokratischer-Schleudersitz.html Use with reference to previous behavior in the SPD in the Wiener Zeitung
