Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoSaying you're down to do something means the same thing as saying you're up for it.message-squaremessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1285arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1275arrow-down1message-squareSaying you're down to do something means the same thing as saying you're up for it.Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekaktus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoIs it just me or are people also using hands up instead of hands down? As in: this is hands down/up the best post I’ve read all day. As a non English native this always throws me off.
minus-squareJustARegularNerd@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoAussie chiming in: haven’t heard hands up before, might be a US thing
minus-squareeliasar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoUS here, we use “hands down”. That is hands down the worst children’s play I’ve ever seen.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI think some people are deliberately trying to fuck up intergenerational understanding by teaching weird or opposite versions of phrases and other cultural tokens
Is it just me or are people also using hands up instead of hands down? As in: this is hands down/up the best post I’ve read all day.
As a non English native this always throws me off.
Aussie chiming in: haven’t heard hands up before, might be a US thing
US here, we use “hands down”.
I think some people are deliberately trying to fuck up intergenerational understanding by teaching weird or opposite versions of phrases and other cultural tokens