• peteypete420
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    5 months ago

    We should retire the idiom because people are using it as intended and everyone understands it as intended?

    • Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com
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      5 months ago

      I think people intend it to be a clever undercutting of the person they dislike. But it stopped being clever ages ago. When does something become a cliche? Because it just sounds petty now.