is kinda becoming the new "have a nice day" - an expression that began as a simple pleasantry that evolved to become sorta a self-aware signifier of expressing a simple pleasantry, and later took on a more layered meaning. "Good luck with that" is no longer really about wishing someone good luck with something, it's almost like it means, "What you propose to do is likely to fail and I don't care."
Are there other expressions like this?
― sarahel, Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"Be lucky"
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Who says "be lucky"?
― bamcquern, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
cockney geezers
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i hadn't heard it either.
― sarahel, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
We don't know many cockney geezers.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
but seriously - what other expressions are there that evolve to come to mean almost the opposite of their initial meaning?
― sarahel, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"great thread"
― Lamp, Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
on ilx - definitely, good one.
― sarahel, Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link