Phrases you've never understood.
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Violins make some pretty heart-rending melodies, and generally when someone rubs their pointer finger and thumb together and said that they're playing the world's tiniest violin for them, it is making one of those sad, depressing tunes. It's sarcasm, making fun of how much of a big deal they're making out of something.the spud said:
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it"
Meaning, we'll do that thing or worry about it at a more appropriate time. My problem with it is that even if you wanted to you CAN'T cross the bridge till you get there. I always say "we'll build that bridge when we get to the river" instead. I mean, it confuses the hell out of people when I say it but at least you can build a bridge before you get to the river, it just has far less use or wastes effort at the wrong time!
Meaning, we'll do that thing or worry about it at a more appropriate time. My problem with it is that even if you wanted to you CAN'T cross the bridge till you get there. I always say "we'll build that bridge when we get to the river" instead. I mean, it confuses the hell out of people when I say it but at least you can build a bridge before you get to the river, it just has far less use or wastes effort at the wrong time!
"My dog's are barking" when people refer to their feet hurting. I don't know where it came from, but it's really stupid.
You're trying to find something that someone asked you to get for them. You search for a minute where they said the object was, but you can't find it. So, you go back to that person and tell them so. They then get up, and in a frustrated manner, say, "If it was up your ass, you'd know where it was."
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Um, OK. That's a given, but... what?
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Um, OK. That's a given, but... what?
Yeah, this was exactly what I was thinking when I clicked on the thread. I understand what it's saying, but I think it's completely retarded way of expressing that, because of the reason you pointed out yourself.retyopy said:
No it isn't.Harlief said:
Whenever anybody claims that The Escapist is more intelligent than the rest of the internet, this topic should be brought out to refute that.
One that really bugs me that people use a lot is "It's not even ______"
'It's not even funny' is a common one and it makes no sense. Say someone tells a joke, the joke can either be funny(good), or not funny(bad), so saying that the joke is not even funny is the same thing as saying that it's so bad that it isn't even good.
"He's so sick that he isn't even healthy" or "He's so fat that he isn't even skinny" Well, duh.
'It's not even funny' is a common one and it makes no sense. Say someone tells a joke, the joke can either be funny(good), or not funny(bad), so saying that the joke is not even funny is the same thing as saying that it's so bad that it isn't even good.
"He's so sick that he isn't even healthy" or "He's so fat that he isn't even skinny" Well, duh.
HappyPillz said:
You can use it for other things than jokes. "The prank you pulled on Rajesh was not only incredibly cruel, it wasn't even funny. You're an asshole, kill yourself."
And various situations like that.
"Fart pillow? Really, Jamal? It's not even funny." Reading between the lines the implication being that first and foremost fart jokes are immature, and secondly, they're not even funny, which if they were, might excuse the immaturity.
Your first point, sure, that makes sense. Except people don't really use it that way.kinapuffar said:
But the point still remains that using 'not even' implies that whatever it is can't even reach some low standard. You could say "It's not even a 3 out of 10" and that would make sense: it's so bad that it doesn't get a decent score. Instead though, people say it like "It's so bad that it's not even a 10 out of 10"
'Not even' means that it's falling short of the mark, and if the mark is being the best it can be then you have a grammatical redundancy. You could say "He is poor", instead of "He isn't even a millionaire"
It was more to do with asking people to f*ck me when I see something out of the ordinary.Amondren said:Its a proper sentence its has a verb and a subject.The-Epicly-Named-Man said:
Ahh, never heard of a cheese and wine party?Drew Richard said:
It's two things that have always gone together
Ahh, this ones hard to tell from just reading it.captaincabbage said:
but it might have something to do with a corruption of, I think this whole things been a bit of damp squib.
Squib being an explosive in with industrial uses, being wet it's therefor useless.