Was thinking about the 'up' as an Americanism - as in 'slow up'. But the 'down' in 'slow down' is superfluous too!
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
"slow up"? is that regional?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
"slow up" is pretty rare ime, but not unheard of. as a kid, the accepted way to ask some other kids to let you catch up who were outdistancing you was to yell "HEY! WAIT UP!"
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:34 (five years ago) link
oh yea wait up for sure
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:44 (five years ago) link
brad otm
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
I think 'slow up' is an occasional southern US thing? I don't know - I've heard it a few times. https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/slow-down-v-slow-up.940985/
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:49 (five years ago) link
offering up has a specific connotation ime
― tired culché (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:18 (five years ago) link
Yeah, more like surrendering something, maybe?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:00 (five years ago) link
its a sacrifice to a higher cause, yeah
specifically a hurt or suffering (afaict whether or not twas asked for or not, you can offer it up the way youd swap a gift for store credit iirc)
― tired culché (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:10 (five years ago) link
Though I suppose I've heard it in the sense of 'The restaurant offers up a wide variety of dishes etc.', which seems to have less of the sacrificial element.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link
well it adds a frisson until the food arrives at the very least non
― tired culché (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:21 (five years ago) link
offering up has a specific connotation imei keep seeing it in the context of companies “offering up” products and services
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:14 (five years ago) link
awesome sauce
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
stop it now
thought that one finally died. just let me believe that, okay?
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
OK.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
it didn't go away, it just morphed into Shut The Front Door! Shut. The Front. Door!
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
first time I heard STFD I thought it was hilarious, and I still kinda do! guess I haven't been bludgeoned to death with it yet
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Are ppl saying that now? I mean I've heard it but rarely. It feels very old fahioned to me.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
tbh i don't know what people say these days, i spend most of my life in the same 25 ft radius
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
first time I heard it was just, idk, 6-7 years ago. is it old?
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
sick of heartbrokenness
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
^ terrible
― mind how you go (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
add heartsick, brokenhearted
anything having to do with the state of one's own heart that is not literally about heart disease
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
I always liked the Germanic flavor of "heartsick" it's so radiantly non-Latinate! The Old English heortseoc actually meant literal heart disease but we ruined it
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
"Shut the front door" sounds like something mormon teenagers would say.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
Ha! I think I'm right about that one!
― Dan I., Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
if you hear someone say awesomesauce it's only a matter of time before they say amazeballs. it's endearing at sufficient remove
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1404632
It's Napoleon Dynamite isn't it, along with "flippin'" etc., it's all Napoleon Dynamite
xpost
― Dan I., Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
― Dan I., Wednesday, June 20, 2018 5:22 PM
lol
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
if you hear someone say awesomesauce it's only a matter of time before they say amazeballs
i literally forgot those two were separate things
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
decine of western civ: awesomesauce is in the OED
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
I have experienced heartsickness/heartbrokenness, as the word is used in the emotional sense, not in a medical sense. It was during the time when our desperate struggle to take care of our daughter was reaching its nadir and the only apparent remedy that might bring anything resembling peace would be death, either mine or hers.
fwiw, it felt like a peculiar sensation more or less where the heart is located, somewhat behind the sternum, not quite an ache, but more a sense of painful loss and emptiness that rarely went away except in sleep. My physical heart muscle did not seem to be connected to it, other than sharing a similar space. Some weeks after I began to notice it, occurred to me that I was "heartbroken", a word that made perfect sense to me at the time. It still does.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
Oh. That is very moving, A.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
but LL is probably correct to say it is overused hyperbole in almost all cases
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
famous example: "the heartbreak of psoriasis". hell, I have psoriasis and heartbreak isn't even in the same country.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
exactly -- i'm not saying it's not real, just saying it's an overused and cheap cliche
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 23:55 (five years ago) link
I wrote a couple sonnets recently and it turns out all metaphors and most three-word phrases are cliches. :(
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
I can't really imagine that kind of pain, Aimless, I hope you never experience it again.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 02:13 (five years ago) link
‘Shut the front door’ is associated with ‘Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives’ because Guy Fieri says it more often than ‘flavortown’.
― suzy, Thursday, 21 June 2018 07:28 (five years ago) link
I picture Elaine saying it on Seinfeld. I’m glad I don't watch any Guy Fieri shows.
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:13 (five years ago) link
^ Yes! I'm certain that Elaine said it at least a couple times. I have no idea if it's old or not it just sounds like it is somehow.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
We're probably getting into overly-prescriptive, distinctly 'my problem' territory here, but I keep hearing people at work say 'squash' when they mean 'quash' and it's driving me nuts.
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 June 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20hgQa-mkVQ
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Friday, 22 June 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
That undercuts the impact my much-beloved retort, 'no, YOU'RE the door!'
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 June 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
Flippin' eck, Tucker.
― Tim, Friday, 22 June 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
"hydrate" is not a better way to say "drink water."
― mick signals, Monday, 25 June 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
Nobody actually says "quash." Everyone says "squash" instead.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 25 June 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
It's the new 'expresso'.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 June 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
I don't think I've ever heard that usage of "squash" irl.
― mick signals, Monday, 25 June 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link