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I've never heard "to table" used in a permanent way. It's always been meant to be temporary as far as I understood it. So very similar to "put it on the back burner"
Exactly
Yep, to "table" something is to mean we'll talk about it at a later time.
Same
I would say it is flexible; I could say put it away temporarily but thinking that it is indeed permanent. And everybody in the conversation could know exactly what I mean.
Agreed. I often hear it in informal usage as “let’s table that for now”. In a meeting, you’d vote to table a motion, which means it isn’t considered until it is put back on the agenda at a later date.
I asked a professor to sign an official university form by saying that I needed his John Hancock. He handed it back with a perfect copy of Hancock's original signature! Be careful, you may get what you ask for.
That is the most professor thing I've ever heard in my life.
@@wta1518 I can't help but thinking he'd been waiting for years to get to do that
The funny thing is, at least in my understanding, is that , because he did it with a witness, it counts as a legal signature as much as a simple X would!!!
Still a legal signing, because it isn't so much what you sign as the act of signing itself legitimizes the document.
😂
Literally never occured to me until just now that most people in the world have no idea who John Hancock is.
To be fair Americans wouldn't know who he was either if not for this figure of speech. John Hancock wasn't one of the super famous founders like Franklin or Jefferson. His oversized signature on the Declaration *IS* the only reason most of the people who've heard of him have heard of him.
🤦🏻♀️
Many Americans don't know any of the signers of the declaration. Or why it was important.
Most Americans have no idea who the CURRENT prime minister of the UK (France, Italy...) is.
@@paveladamek3502yeah, but the UK is depressing and grey tbh. While the US is depressing and vibrant if you get what I mean
Ya gotta admit, John Hancock's signature is a work of art.
I never heard of Bye Felicia? Must be midwestern. While I have enjoyed your program, if any American was harmed due to your advocating pinching on St. Patrick’s Day the Campaign to get your uneducated riot inciting program would have been endless. We have freedom of Religion and larger Parades than any other Nation. Please think before you speak, don’t declare things America that are solely heard in Chicago and Indiana. If one of my employees was overheard saying Bye Felecia they would be “sacked” in A New York City Minute. You should research more nationally. The John Hancock did make me laugh.
They really did know how to write back then. Today we put up with incomprehensible unreadable chicken scratch that we somehow qualify as "writing." It would be quite nice to just crop out that signature, frame it, and put it up on a wall to admire.
I hear his John Hancock was pretty impressive as well!
Maybe the other signatures would've been works of art as well ifJohn Hancock hadn't been a dick and made his signature so huge 😜
It was a deliberate “in your face” to the British
“Table it” does not mean you forget about it. It means you’ll talk about it later like at the next meeting. For example, if you are in a meeting that’s going on to long you’ll say “we’ll table this (idea or question) for now.”
If that’s what it means then why would you have to clarify by adding “for now”?
@@DemonJuice Partly to give assurance that it will be brought back up. Usually there’s a time given when the item will be brought back up (generally during the next meeting’s slated time for “unfinished business”); it’s up to the group’s secretary (the person in charge of the minutes) to note the tabling in the minutes and bring it back up for discussion. The general purpose of tabling an idea/motion is to give more time to think an action over or improve a proposed action before voting on it. Motions may also be tabled if it’s known that a decision isn’t needed immediately. At the same time, in Congress, if a bill passes by recorded vote, the Speaker declares that “the motion to reconsider is laid on the table,” meaning that no one can demand a re-vote.
@@DemonJuice That's just the common way of phrasing it, I suspect a lot of people who use the phrase don't even know its literal use.
I think the phrase is included in Robert's Rules of Order and why it's come into common usage.
@@DemonJuice Because you could table it indefinitely, or for one week, or until tomorrow. Giving a time period, even if a vague one, is common when suggesting an action that has an implicit duration.
In brazilian portuguese we have an equivalent to “monday morning quarterback”, which is “engineer of finished constructions” (engenheiro de obra pronta).
That's a much smarter version. I wonder if it has anything to do with all the planning work done on Brasilia?
“to table” is very similar to “to shelf” where you put the idea on “the shelf” for later
I believe it would be "to shelve", actually. But close enough.
'shelve', child.
Don’t worry about the replies. Some people such losers the get off on correcting silly mistakes
@mocapcow2933 Yep! Oh yeah... +are, and "they"**.
@@arcanewyrm6295 since this is a video about America, your original comment should have the comma after “shelve” and before the quotation mark. And “should” would be a better replacement than “would,” since you are offering a correction.
“In for a penny, in for a pound.” I’ve heard that British expression many times in the the U.S.
Whenever I’m in Penny, I know that I’m in for a good pounding.
Also penny wise pound foolish. Nobody says penny wise dollar foolish
"Hang for a penny, hang for a pound" is more familiar to me. Early 19th century Britian tried to curb petty crime with Draconian penalties the made more serious crime more attractive.
Even the practice of referring to one-cent coins as pennies is a habit we carried over from our days as British colonies; officially the name of that coin is a "cent."
@@stevethepocket In for a cent, in for a dollar. Nah.
American football games are played Friday nights for High School, Saturday for College, and Sunday for the pros. So fans could attend three games a week, and Monday morning quarterback all three.
Some college games are also played on Thursday. But there's Monday night football as well, so there must be a Tuesday morning QB out there somewhere.
It's a lot of Tuesday morning QBs
Don't forget NFL Thursdays.
@@HansDelbruck53pro is on Thursday as well.
Don’t forget Monday night football
St. Felicia, the patron saint of goodbyes
I'm loving this! Former Catholic so it is really funny.
Saint Felicity was a Christian martyr from the 3rd century.
To table something is like putting it on the back burner.
I think Hancock was just really proud of his handwriting and signature. I mean, it is by far the most attractive signature on the document.
He was the president of the 2nd Continental Congress. His signature made the document official, and was the only signature required. The other signatures came a month or so later as a show of support.
Anything that large would attract attention lmao
@@Hola-ro6yv That's what she said!
You really knocked it out of the park with this one.
To "table" an issue doesn't mean to discard it, it just means to put it off till later. Like, it doesn't matter enough to be item number 1, save it for after lunch.
I’m a 70-year-old American and today is the first time I’ve heard “bye, Felicia”.
Me too!
It's because you're straight.
You're not missing anything it was stupid then and it's stupid now it's saying meet me outside
It's from a 90's gangster rap movie. I'd never heard it either.
Well that checks out. Film is 30 years old tho. Cheers!
This made me realize a funny thing about using the table as a place to put concepts; I use it both ways. "Is this option on the table?" to mean "can we consider this option" or "let's just table that for now," to mean we're moving on to another topic and will maybe circle back later.
Or, "under the table" as in sneaking something and/or taking cash (bribe or secret deal), i.e., "normal" (read corrupt) business in Washington, D.C., aka "The Swamp"
Another one that's similar to "shoot the breeze" is "chew the fat". Your jaw is moving but you aren't getting any real valuable nutrition from it so it implies very casual conversation. And the Hancock Tower in Chicago isn't named after John Hancock per se, it's named after the insurance company that uses his name as their brand. Their headquarters are in that building. I believe they were also developers of the building.
Also, chew the rag.
In the Appalachian south, we say jawin' (jawing) when we're just catching up and shooting the s**t.
I think chew the fat goes back to way before the US existed.
The saying is an Americanised version of chew the cud . Like a cow does.
@@trevorcook3129 These phrases have different meanings. "Chew the cud" means rehash something over and over, pointlessly. "Chew the fat" just means chat socially.
I'm American and am familiar with all these phrases and have even used all of them! To me, "as all get-out" feels a little old-fashioned, but certainly not obsolete.
I never heard the phrase until I was an adult, and then my dad used it a few times. It seems to be something he grew up with, but he didn't use it in my presence for basically the first half of my life. Now I've taken to using it.
it's a great phrase
"As all get out" was pretty popular in the 70s. Dating myself a bit. 😊
I’m an older Millennial and saying “as all get out” feels like something my parents and their friends would say. If I said it, it would be because I’m around people that don’t like swearing and I’m desperately reaching for phrases that don’t have any rude words in them, lol.
Grabbed off the internet... All get out in as/more X as/than all get out is an obvious euphemism for hell, which occurs frequently in this construction: as hot as hell, hotter than hell. Since hell is a tabooed term, it attracts euphemisms... One theory...
John Hancock, as president of the Second Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence in the same manner he signed all the documents. About a month later, some members started to question their own commitment to Independence. It was then decided that all members of the congress should commit their names to the document. But because of available space, the other signatures needed to be much smaller. Ben Franklin Said, it best: "We all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately."
These sponsors should be told that an ad of 1 minute may sound reasonable to their managers but is insanely long in a 10 minute video
Agreed
Maybe breaking it up into two related segments. The advertiser is paying for one minute. So for ex, in this video, he could have introduced the app at the start for 15 seconds, referred to it later for 15 seconds, the finished off with the advertiser's offer at the end of the video. Other KZheadrs integrate the advertiser into the video's topic for that one minute. This not only makes it painless, it increases ad and comment engagement. Quite a few creators get comments about just how well they integrate ad-reads
I could swear that my friends and i used "Bye Felicia" during high school, (1987 - 1991), which predates that movie. We'd use it toward anyone regardless of name, but took particular joy in using it toward one of our classmates whose name was Felicia. When the movie came out it seemed to me that it was simply using that phrrase which was already in the common parlance. My googling today seeme to exclusively attribute the phrase to the movie, though, so.... manufactured memory, perhaps?
weird glitch lol
It’s possible you are right and the Internet - god forbid - is wrong. I seem to recall ppl using it before the film too but I’m not sure either.
Very possible the internet is just wrong. I can believe the movie popularized it, but I kind of doubt it invented it. Another one people always argue over is "sike" vs. "psych." The phrase came from "to psych someone out," but anytime you bring this up, a bunch of morons will tell you "it's slang," or "back in the 80s we never spelled it like that..." Yeah, cuz you were just dumb and wrong. Why is that so hard to believe?
American here: at a planning meeting in the UK with British colleagues, and they said, regarding one document, that they would "Bin it." No idea what that meant. Apparently, it meant to toss it in the trash can.
They 86’d it it put it in File 13. 😊
@@sewnetvids Or the "circular file".
Americanism I'd say it means is scrap it.
Bin means trash bin. They don’t say garbage can. Rubbish bin.
I would've understood it immediately. That's probably the least confusing example in this entire comment section. Did you just not know what a "bin" was?
A phrase I've only start hearing recently is 'Sweet Summer Child', it's describes someone who is innocent or naive, or someone who is about to come across a person or situation that is more dangerous or difficult than they thought. According to the internet it may be older but it was popularized by George R.R. Martin when he used it in Game of Thrones.
Yes, it is way older than that. My grandparents and parents use that term a lot, and I’m in my 30s. I believe it is from the Victorian era when they believed that that season you were born in determined your disposition, and summer children were innocent/pure and not well versed in reality. So it’s from the 1800s. I believe it took on a new meaning in the 1960s as a way to mock hippies, since they were always talking about the “Summer of Love” and now it has resurfaced due to GoT. But it is a really old saying
I have heard it from the same people who say “bless his heart” to describe a well meaning imbecile.
Funny that it was popularized by Martin. It sounds very Southern.
@@jonathanmartin1910 Very interesting. Do you know what qualities are attributed to people born in the other seasons?
Interestingly, I used three of these phrases in my work as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching about American culture: "Monday morning quarterback," "John Hancock" and "plead/take the Fifth."
Never heard anyone use the "bye Felicia" And you are funny as all get out!😂
Yeah, I missed bye Felicia too, being an old fart who mainly associates with other old farts. But at least now I know what it means if I hear it!
@coyotech55 I'll be old fart in August. But the older I get the faster away old seems to be. Until I try something I used to do 20 years ago!!!😅😅😅
At this point, it is already dated.
@@coyotech55 You're likely not going to hear it a ton now. But if you knew a decent amount of gay men 5-10 years ago you would have.
@@beetpulse Ah, that explains it. It was sort of a flash in the pan.
Tabling, from Robert's Rules of Order (which is a book of parliamentary procedure): "TABLING MOTIONS: If it appears that more information is needed to consider a motion fairly, then a motion to table the discussion can be made. The length of, and reason for, tabling the motion must be included in the table to motion. A majority of members must support the tabling in for it to pass."
Oooh - you pulled out the big guns! Robert’s Rules of Order - now I’m going to have to look up and see if he/they are specifically American!
So this one is from Britain.
Robert's is based on the procedures of the US Congress, which was devised purposely to be the opposite of the UK Parliament.
arm chair pundit would be like a back seat driver
More like our armchair quarterback.
If online, "keyboard warrior".
Or arm chair quarterback 😊
“Back seat driver” is the golf club, I keep in the rear passenger compartment of my vehicle.
Back seat driver? For a minute there I thought it was talking about my ex wife! She fit each description.
I've heard kids use "Say goodnight, Gracie," when scoring the winning game point, without any idea of the origin. (Burns & Allen in the '50s on TV, and years earlier on radio).
to "come on like Gangbusters" also has its origins on a radio show ... they had a very loud intro with sirens, police whistles, and gunfire
A bit of trivia: the transom of three USS Hancock has copied the signature of John Hancock from the declaration of independence, rather than the usual block letters found on the sterns of Navy ships. Love your videos, Lawrence.
We do have "Armchair general" too which is another form of "monday-morning quarterback".
You're mixing up phrases. We have the Grid Iron General (meaning the actual Quarterback), and an Armchair Quarterback (meaning the guy, at home, critiquing play AS it's happening).
Arm chair generals are a thing. Referring to blunders and mistakes from military leaders in the past as a historian, akin to some schlub saying "Napoleon was an idiot for Waterloo" would be an armchair general
@@usonumabeach300I think it's more when people say what soldiers *should* have done or do, not just criticizing them.
@@Rotorhead1651 Armchair General has nothing to do with football, it's when people 'Monday Morning Quarterback' historical battles.
Tbh, I think "armchair something" is creeping back into fashion. Never heard "armchair general," but you bet your ass I've heard "armchair critic" on the internet a lot.
"Have a cup of Joe." Or "want a cup of Joe?" Is what I hear the most. Kinda like "have a spot of tea." In Britain, or at least that's what I hear them saying in those old BBC shows.
Joe Daniels was the Secretary of the Navy who took booze off Navy ships in 1914. His vile deed turned coffee into a cup of Joe.
I've read that "a cup of Joe" comes from the U.S. Navy in the 1800s. The secretary of the Navy changed the "recreational beverage" from grog/beer to Coffee. His name was Joe, and so sailors snidely called their new beverage "a cup of Joe".
A "cup of joe" (or "cuppa joe") is a bit old-fashioned. It sounds like something you'd read in a 1940s private eye novel.
A spot of tea would imply tea the meal not tea the drink in the uk. A cup of tea is usually just shortened to “cuppa”. It’s always implied that it’s tea so you don’t say it e.g good to see you, fancy a cuppa? I don’t like tea got a coffee? Get out
@@jimtrela7588 Josephus Daniels banned alcohol use from all US Navy ships in 1914. This put an end to officers having wine with meals. Alcohol use by enlisted had already been banned in 1899.
One of my favorite saying is; Get outta Dodge! The saying started the long-running TV show Gunsmoke, which takes place in Dodge City. The law, AKA Marshall Dillon, tells a nar-do-well the leave town. It has come to mean a combination of 'I don't believe what you just said' & 'bye Felicia.'
Oh interesting I've never heard of it used that way, we always used it pretty literally like "things aren't going well and we need to leave now"
@@WittyPractitioner Yeah, I understand it to mean "leave before things get bad."
I've mostly heard it used with the "hasty exit in the face of trouble" meaning, and generally in the form "Get the hell outta dodge".
It's also used to tell your friends you think it's time for you guys to leave and go somewhere else ("let's get the hell out of Dodge")
@@dwaneanderson8039That's exactly what it means. You get the hell out of Dodge before the gunfights break out, and/or Wyatt Earp and Bill Hickok swing through.
"Bye, Felicia" is a new one to me. "Plead the fifth" is used more often in conversation than in the courtroom. A defendant is not required to testify in a criminal trial, but if he or she does testify, must answer all questions, even if the answer is incriminating. That is, a criminal defendant on the witness stand can't refuse to answer a question by pleading the fifth. Someone other than the accused can do this, and a witness in a civil case (even the defendant) can plead the fifth. One can also do it in a legislative hearing. But most often, it's used as a joke. Q: "Who was that woman I saw you with last night?" A: "I plead the fifth."
It's new to me, too. But he should have said it at the end of the video.
The woman last night was probably Felicia.
I’ve also used “I refuse to answer on the grounds it might incinerate me.” Purposefully wrong, of course.
Very very common 50 years ago, but rare now.
To all saying that you never heard the term “bye Felicia” it comes from the Ice Cube/Chris Tucker movie Friday, its origin is from that movie because it’s a direct line from that movie. Felicia was the main character’s cousin and the running joke in movie is that each time Felicia came into scene he would say bye Felicia.
Exactly 💯
It might be but I have never heard it in notmal, everyday speech. It may be more regional.
*Normal
I thought it came from the Bill Cosby show. The one where he is a Doctor and graduated from Hillman and his wife was named Felicia. That was a long time ago.
Y'all too young to remember the meme with the cowboy saying bye Felicia? That's the first incidence of the phrase I remember, having NEVER seen this movie Edit: Well shit. I guess I was just thinking of the Well bye guy? I'm so confused right now
Im really surprised nobody has heard "Bye Felicia" before. Maybe it's a generation thing? Older generations probably dont say it and maybe younger generations too lol. Its from the movie Friday, Ice Cube says it. That movie came out on the 90s so it's probably more popular among Gen X and Millennials.
Or nobody watches movies with Ice Cube and/or Chris Tucker in them.
Good gravy! I know its origins and I am a person of a certain age.
@@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq If “nobody” watched Friday then Hollywood wouldn’t have made multiple follow up films. Anyone delusional enough to think Initial box office flops commonly turn into franchises doesn’t know how commercialism works and is probably still awaiting the release of Water World II. 😂
@@anndeecosita3586 😱they’re finally making the sequel? I’ve been waiting soooo long for it!
@@anndeecosita3586 gee, I hope Chris Tucker and/or Ice Cube won’t be in it!
3:46 One of my great-great-[...]-uncles is the second signature in the leftmost column.
How cool!
Pretty cool.
Oooooh Lawrence why do the Brits say a pinch of salt instead of take it with a grain of salt ?
“Ooooooooo Lawrence” gets me every time 😂😂😂😂
Clearly, they like salt more, so it takes a whole pinch to offend them!
They are two different things, a pinch of salt mean add little salt when cooking.
"punch of salt" - Benny Ruggiero
Ooooh Lawrence why do the Brits drop the article "the" before "hospital"? The victim of the car accident was rushed to THE hospital vs. rushed to hospital?
I love those Sally Jessie Raphael glasses 🤓. 🔥
They give the right donaHUE haha
Mon-tel less bad jokes, please.
Her glasses were 100% red. The side of his are black.
It pays to be different...
I see what you did there 😂
As a Canadian watching your channel, most of the US stuff leaks over the border, but I have never heard of "Monday Morning Quarterback" or "as all get out". But the stuff that is very clearly US-focused, is stuff I've heard plenty. "John Hancock" and "plead the fifth" (because the fifth amendment of the Canadian constitution is recognizing British Columbia as a province)
The genesis of MMQ is from those know-it-all football fans who want everyone else to "know" that they'd make a better QB than the guy bring paid to do the actual job.
I'm American, I have never heard of Monday morning quarterback. But I'm also not into sports at all.
@@legsnhipsnbawdyI have heard it many times. The phrase is rooted in sports but not generally used that way. Like saying something “came out of left field” isn’t usually talking about baseball.
Such a different meaning then plead the fifth!
"Did you see Felicia last night?" "I plead the fifth." "Well now, that's not sketchy at all!" "No no, I mean, I'm just in complete agreement that British Columbia is a province!" "What?" "What?"
Missed the opportunity to say "bye Felicia" at the end of the video 😅
I rarely say "Monday morning quarterback". I usually say "Hindsight is 20/20" or "Would've, could've, should've". They all pretty much mean the same thing.
Agreed, those alternatives are far more common nowadays.
I've never even heard of this phrase!
@@DJPoundPuppy It's very dated, that's why. Only old-timers would say it.
Somebody probably has already, but I think you could make an entire video on expressions just from baseball: "touch base", "touch all the bases", "throw someone a curveball", "play hardball", "hit a home run", "strike out", "go to bat for someone", etc., plus a couple that may be from baseball but could be from sports in general: "drop the ball" and "be on the ball"...
Well that came straight outta left field! I hate to ask a softball question, but why don't you pitch the idea? Or are you afraid to land in foul territory? I lost count of all the references, but I could probably give you a ballpark estimate.
@@gloriaalex11 Wow. Your examples are better than mine. You make me realize my comment was a swing and a miss...
@@suchanhachan Yeah, that guy really knocked it out of the park with that comment.
I'm from Appalachia and boy do we have the phrases. I love your videos they always have me grinnin' like a donkey chewing saw briar!
I've heard some people say "John Henry" when they actually mean "John Hancock".
They confused Hancock with the folk hero John Henry.
Or Herbie Hancock. lol
@@acridyd "mr. callahan, i need your john hancock on these reports." "john hancock... it's HERBIE hancock."
@@_.trish._ yesh, you get it!! 🤣
@@acridyd tommy boy is a classic
7:43 Interestingly, the term “on the table” *is* used like that in American English! It’s just when “table” is by itself as a verb that it means to discard or set aside.
This is true~ A common phrase when people are dating is to ask them, “What do you bring to the table?” Which of course means, “what do you have to offer?” And I’ve also heard people say things like, “Allow me to put something/bring something to the table,” and it’s usually said before they present an idea, or a thought, or a feeling. There’s also, “put it all on the table” which means to put it all out there/I have nothing to lose. Just be honest about something, or say what you’re gonna say. That’s why context is important in all languages.
A funny thing about "bye Felicia" is that I was watching an episode of Columbo where a woman was getting a beaty treatment at salon and pleasantly said "Bye Felicia" which was quite the surprise for us.
What was the woman's name?
I hope the salon didn't " beat" her too much. 🥴😄😄 I'm thinking you meant to say beauty, not beaty.
"I appreciate you" is only something I heard after moving to Texas. On the east coast, I never heard that phrase; it was always, "I appreciate it/that."
I never know what to say in response to "I appreciate you." Thank you for appreciating me? You're welcome for the thing that made you appreciate me?
Much obliged for that comment
Prohibits double jeopardy. Well, I'm calling one of those lawyers on the TV to file suit to prevent the airing of the second half of a quiz show.
lol!
To the Commenters who havent heard "Bye, Felicia", it is a more Millennial/Older Gen Z phrase. I have heard it and I am a born and raised American Millennial
I'm a barely-missed-being-a-boomer Gen X, and I've heard it frequently. Although mostly from younger folks, so I think your allocation of Millennial/Gen Z is accurate.
I was saying the phrase in 1995, the second year of college for me and I’m GenX.
I did see that movie, and I have never, not once, heard that expression. Maybe it's regional, I'm from New York
An, you’re a bit late to the game, doll. Well before Millenials’ time
Never saw the movie or heard the phrase.
Larry, all I can say is, "Bob's your Uncle."
In my case, Bob is my cousin's uncle. Or my mom's cousin. Got a couple in the family.
@@mitchells2003 Bob was my dad. So "Bob's your uncle" would refer to my cousins.
I can't think off hand of an American equivalent that isn't dated. You're home free? You're in like Flynn? You're good to go?
@@robertabarnhart6240 My brother-in-law's name is Robert. So Bob is my daughter's uncle.😁
Maybe what I should have said was, "Bob, Larry's your nephew."
I highly recommend the movie Friday. That movie has a few phrases that have made it into the popular vernacular. When you watch the movie, you'll be able to answer this: "Why you don't like Hector?"
Lost in the Pond, This video is fantastic! I liked it a lot!
Did you think it was funny "as all get out?" 🤣
I'm not sure if this is an expression that you'd be familiar with or not, but it was inspired by your sponsored ad, which is, "There's no such thing as a free lunch."
When something is free, you are the product.
I've only ever heard that phrase used by Republicans arguing why children who can't afford lunch at school should simply starve...
As an equestrian , I've often heard & used " There's no such thing as a free pony " , meaning there's always a cost or higher cost involved , etc.
Aka, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch" and its acronym, "TANSTAAFL."
The genesis of Monday Morning Quarterback is from those unofficial football officianados who "offer" their opinions of how the weekend footbal games SHOULD have been played. (IE: "This is what Elway should have done......") With regards to your (Britain's) "armchair pundit", we actually have a very similar phrase. We call them "armchair quarterback". These are basically the same as the MMQ, but like your pundit, operate in real time, AS the game is proceeding.
I've only ever heard armchair warrior, armchair activist, or armchair politician. I'm curios where you're from, as I've lived on both west and east coasts and never heard monday morning or armchair quarterback
@@michaelwintermantel9127I’ve heard of Armchair Quarterback. It’s similar to “armchair general” where people sitting at home critique how the U.S. military is fighting a war. in that case, I believe it originated from the Vietnam war were lots of people not in the military had opinions of what the U.S. was doing wrong strategy-wise who were not on the battlefield. In some cases, they were correct In their critiques and in others, not so much. Like a Monday morning quarterback, it’s debatable in some cases weather they are right or not and to what degree.
@@michaelwintermantel9127I use the phrase “armchair quarterback.” I think I picked it up from my Dad, who is from Ohio, so it might be a Midwest term?
@@FentonHardyFan I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and it was a pretty common phrase there also, so maybe it is a Midwest thing.
There is an episode of “IT Crowd” where Roy and Moss try to make off like they’re football fans with just a couple of memorized phrases.
5:41 As a native speaker whose older than you, I was surprised to learn one I wasn't aware of. Thank you.
Bless your heart
Now, y'all be nice!
I learned that one when I relocated to North Carolina in 2016. I'm still not 100% clear what it means, but it implies that the person being blessed needs a lot of help and protection from the Lord because of his or her very limited intelligence.
I would comment on this video but I'm pleading the fifth.
I personally tabled it, I plan to do a Monday morning quarterback with my friend who likes to shoot the breeze. This is trite as all get-out, but I plead the fifth. LOL.
Howdy, y'all, from Temple, Texas, USA!
As someone born in US, living in US for nearly 70 years, I've never heard "Bye, Felicia." I'm not sure what the significance of that is.
Same here.
I've only heard it in the last year or two for some reason
I usually hear it as someone (especially on social media) saying they quit the conversation, while other people say "Bye, Felicia" as a way of saying "You will not be missed."
Bye Felicia??? Another “haven’t heard!
It's "bye".
@@jwb52z9 Typo fixed… but maybe it was funnier the other way!🤣
I never heard it, and I have lived in the USA my entire life. Will be 49 in July of 2024.
It was popular for a minute among younger people some years ago (maybe even a decade? I'm getting old...)
@@seanbeckerer5089 Same here, though I'm older than that.
You can table a discussion, chair a meeting, bench a player, floor an audience ....
Or raise the roof.
It refers to the motions 'Lay on the table' and 'take from the table' in parliamentary procedure (rules to conduct a formal meeting, commonly used in places such as Senate meetings). That is why they're opposite across the pond, we in America use table to refer to 'lay on the table' or set aside, while y'all use it to refer to 'Take from the table' or bring something back to discussion.
We appreciate you Laurence!! This was a fun one!
Your John Hancock is nothing like your John Thomas. 😂
Unless you're named Richard and you sign with a hieroglyph...
but it is like your John Henry
a.k.a Mr. Johnson (by whites) or Mr. Williams (by blacks).
The pen-is mightier than the sword!
A couple of phrases I used growing up in a he Midwest decades ago might be options for another video: “scarce as hen’s teeth” and “good Lord willing’ and the crick don’t rise.” (Crick is a regionalism for creek.)
From Yorkshire, England. I know the 'scarce as hen's teeth' phrase.
Almost the same thing, with a different accent: God willing and the creek don't rise.
In Iowa, a crick is much smaller than a creek. A tiny rivulet of water a few feet wide is a crick. A creek is a small river. They are quite different.
Don't lump the whole Midwest together there now. Here in Michigan, a crick is a much smaller body of water than a creek.
@@loistverberg900 Yes, the same word can definitely mean different things in different parts of the country, depending on geography. Here in the southwest, there aren't many creeks and crick and creek are taken to be the same. Creek implies there is water in it often, a very small river, although maybe not always with water. Gulch, gully, wash and arroyo means it can be large, but it's almost always dry except in major storms when they might be full of water - if they rise, you don't cross them! We don't have many creeks here, except in the mountains, where there are a few.
From Deb of USA…Knackered (exhausted), Gob smacked (utterly surprised), Bumbershoot (umbrella), Nicked (arrested), Shall I knock you up later (pick you up later), how joyfully hilarious it was learning Britishisms when my family lived in the UK for three years. I love the Brits!!
I’ve never actually heard anyone say “bumbershoot”. “Brolly” is normal.
@@robinharwood5044 Brolly is the legendary super Saiyan. A fair bit beyond normal. :þ
Yeah, bumbershoot isn't British; I suspect it was invented by Americans to sound British. Also, to knock someone up means to get them out of bed by knocking on their door or window., so you wouldn't usually say "I'll knock you up later" - since it would be the first thing you do of a morning. We'll, maybe if they were going for a nap, you might say "Ill knock you up when we're ready to go" or something.
Knock you up is to make you pregnant
They used to have people in Mill towns and alike knocking people up for the morning shift as people would not have had clocks. They would knock on doors or windows.
Love your content, Laurence!
Oooh, Laurence!
Here's one Brits don't know: "Put up yer Dukes!" as in a challenge to a fistfight.
British people do know this phrase. It's very old though, much used in Regency times. (Early 19th century).
Do people still say this?
@@brianabc83 No.
I grew up hearing this fairly frequently. Can’t say I’ve used it recently.
@@brianabc83Hit me with your best shot. Fire away.!
I was introduced to the term "John Hancock" by the movie Rango.
The other day, I watched Steve Mould’s video about grasshopper legs. In it, he mentioned that the thing Americans call a “slingshot,” Brits call a “catapult.” “Slingshot” makes more sense to me (it seems to have more in common with slings than other varieties of catapults), but I’d love to learn more about how that change came about!
Ooooh Lawrence, you heard of "ghosting", as in What is she doing? Oh, she's just ghosting, meaning you're present but not doing much. Or "He's a gold brick," meaning "he's there but can't be used" or just taking up space.
People I know use ghosting to mean suddenly cutting off all contact with someone without saying goodbye or offering an explanation.
Interesting. Maybe it's a regional difference.
@@KF-tk5wb I'd say it's more generational or how online you are. I've never heard of "ghosting" outside of the online meaning of suddenly cutting contact. Younger people probably only know it that way.
@@FamiliarlyFrigidI’m older and I’ve only heard of it in this context-cutting off contact, kind of disappearing from someone’s life.
"Goldbricker" was long ago the standard phrase for someone who did the least work possible on the job. Very 1940s-60s. Obsolete now. We might say now "quiet quitting", "soft quitting" or "retired at work". There are other equivalents that I can't think of at the moment but which are common. Goldbricking is very derogatory and only used of other people, not yourself. In contrast, the modern replacements imply that the company or government job you work for doesn't deserve your loyalty or hard work and you feel justified in being spiteful about it. Many Millennials and Gen Z now feel they are badly treated by their employers, and they respond by quiet quitting and are pretty open about it. "So, how is the job going these days?" "Oh, I'm retired at work/Oh, I quiet-quit."
TEN DOLLARS??? That's almost a whole avocado toast!
Said the insufferable hipster
@@Hola-ro6yv Adjusted fedora. "Hmmf! I'll show him!"
Brilliant as always 🙂
Brilliant, Laurence!
Some more phrases we use are “C notes” and “Benjamin’s” for our 100 dollar bills, the idiom “as far as Timbuktu” for exaggerating something that’s far away, we also say “Franks” for hot dogs, and the term “Not worth a continental” which describes something that’s utterly worthless.
I'm British. As children, my sister and I always used Timbuktu as an example of somewhere far away and exotic.
Don't forget "K" = "thousand" for whatever reason. $100k
Frank's is a shortened version of frankfurters.
Never heard "as far as Timbuktu." I have heard "two miles east of Bumfuck, Egypt."
@seanbecket that "whatever reason" is that K stands for the prefix "kilo". As in kilogram, kilometer, etc. $50K is "fifty kilodollars"
Never heard of “bye, Felicia”! Born & bred in the US.
You must not have any black friends.
@@CrystalisQ They don’t use the phrase.
I have. It's not common, but I have heard it.
If you’re past 45 that’s probably why…
Another great video! I've been an Upside user for 2-3 years.
Another great video, LB.
I might have heard "Monday Morning Quarterback" once but it would have been a long time ago, and I wouldn't have understood it. Never, ever, ever heard "Bye Felicia" Thanks for sharing these though. Fun to hear.
I’ve never heard “bye Felicia” before today. Maybe it’s a Chicago thing. And table means to put something aside until the next time, not to discard it.
@@jwb52z9it comes from the Ice Cube movie Friday, its origin is from that movie because it’s a direct line from that movie.
Of course some may hope a thing gets tabled permanently, especially whoever wanted to table it, but it does mean temporarily.
It’s a line from a film set in Los Angeles.
Some thoughts from an eastern US resident transplanted in the midwest: 1. I have never heard the phrase "Monday morning quarterback." 2. I hear "John Hancock" to refer to signature _all the time._ Just interesting how my area seems to be the inverse between this and the first one compared to your experience. 3. Having my preteen and teenage years coincide with the Friday movie releases, "Bye Felicia" is indeed a common phrase, however I am surprised you would hear it so frequently in a professional environment. 4. I like to "plead" other amendments instead of the fifth to see who/if/how people catch on. If you choose numbers 3-8 or so, surprisingly few people even notice.
Another great video. Preciate y’all
😂mean you are no Basil Fawlty but you are okay 👍
Do british people consider the week to be starting on monday? Cause if not friday isn't the fifth day of the week it's the sixth.
I've seen 'work week' calendars where they start on Monday and end on Sunday. Putting the first day of the work week first and the weekend last. We all know that Sunday is the first day of the week. But it hasn't always been that way and especially not for different cultures. 1/2 of the globe has Monday as the first day of the week.
Most normal people do. That's why MONDAY is the "start of the week", not Sunday.
@@bluflaam777 I've always considered Sunday and Saturday to be opposite ends of the week. Like bookends on a shelf, you have one on each side
A calendar week is different from the traditional work week. The "work week" (Mon-Sun) is more in keeping with the Christian "Sabbath", when God rested on the seventh day after six days of Creation. And yet the standard calendar marks that same day as the first day of the week instead of the seventh.
@blakdeth As do most... But technically, by that standard, we should call Sunday the weekstart and Saturday the weekend.
Tabling an item is a thing in debate jargon. It means to set it aside. To remove it from the table and bring it back onto the floor is to reopen it for consideration. Permanent discarding comes from either a motion to indefinitely postpone or, sometimes, a motion to dismiss.
Love it!
Pleading the 5th became a household phrase in the 80s during the televised Iran/Contra hearings.
No it didn’t, plead the fifth has been said since the 1960s in the US, it means do not say anything that will make you seem guilty ,when you testify in court.
@@marydavis5234 Cool, my generation (X) learned it during the O. North hearings in the 80s where that was his answer to every question put to him
I’ve live my 69 year life here, and you just taught me what “Monday Morning Quarterback” means! I’ve always just nodded and laughted… as long as they weren’t talking about me.😁🤣 Hate all the sports-related sayings!🙄
In other words, you're out in left field.
@@georgeadams1853well said!🤣
your humor makes me smile , thanks
You just keep getting better and better.
I've never heard anyone say "Bye, Felicia". Been around a while at this point.
From the movie Friday
@@nmgg6928 I've seen that a bunch of times. It's the crackhead chick. Would have never put those two together but I've also never heard anyone say it.
Never heard of 'Bye Felicia'.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the unsung heroism of Lawrence’s comedic timing? He makes me actulol (actually lol rather than just using it as shorthand for a funny thing) in actual public. 😂
I love that you’re an American now. We’re so lucky to have you.
Soooo, I'm seeing several comments already about not having heard "bye Felicia". It's from the comedy Friday, which definitely was more popular among certain demographics than others. Folks that never heard it might need to expand their social circles into new shades of friends.
It’s way more generational than anything else…
As a 61 year old American, I can honestly say I've never said nor heard anyone say "Bye, Felicia." I guess I'm the wrong color.
I have. It's not common, but I have heard it.
Um, color has nothing to do with that particular phrase.
I think you might be the wrong age, because my white ass has said it multiple times.
I’m a 50 year old American who is black and though I have heard the term my 69 year old mother never has, nor has my 60 year old husband, both whom are black also. It’s an age/generational thing not “skin color/race” thing.
More wrong generation. It's a millennial thing.
Lawrence, please continue putting bits where you use an American accent. I just love it so much ❤️
It's funny when I hear -- and it's surprisingly often -- people say, not "your John Hancock," but "your John Henry." Apparently some people can't distinguish between a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, and a mythical steel driving man.
I have never heard "Monday morning quarterback" or the John Hancock thing. I wonder if some of these are used more in the Eastern United States? I live in the West. I have also only heard "bye Felicia" rarely as a dumb joke. I learned some new things from this video!