Pop out is definitely not new! But I think you mean in it a different way to I would generally use it.
― Alba, Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
"Knock up" and "ring up" are British idioms, not USian ones
― Ludacristine McVie (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
start a thread on phrasal verbs and I will show up!
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
Again a US/UK thing but I never used to hear “the colours pop”, meaning the colours really stand out. If anything I’d have said “pop out” for that. But “pop out” more often to mean “I saw his head pop out of the sunroof” or “I’ve got to pop out to the shops”. It’s a very useful phrasal verb!
― Alba, Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
Pop out also means to go to a party or make a social appearance Some people say pop in and others say pop out * I’ll pop in around 9 before going to the (xyz) * I’m gonna pop out around. 9, see you there
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
“Close out” also means to sell the last of something on clearance, in America.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
it can also mean to stay a bar until closing time!
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
stay AT a bar
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
Ah OK, I’ve never heard anyone say pop out to mean pop in. You’re sure you didn’t just hear it to mean that from context when actually they meant pop out as in leave their home (on the way to the event?)
― Alba, Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
I popped out my flat to pop into the party
― Alba, Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
“I’ve got to pop out to the shops”.
This is my favourite. Pop in is used a lot too.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
A lot of those prepositions in phrasal verbs seem to indicate a completed action - “ate” vs “ate up”, “closed” vs “closed out”.
― Alba, Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
"Dust up" is a good one
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
"Knocked up" has several meanings in British English, at least one of which is the same as the American one?
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
"ate up" as a phrasal verb has other connotations beyond literal eating though, such as "uncritically/enthusiastically believe something"
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
I literally asked my student who used the term “pop out” what she meant and then confirmed w the rest of the class that this is a commonly understood usage. I’ve got a MA in Lx and 15+ years of teaching English language learners, please give me one (1) benefit of doubt for knowing what I am talking about in these fields?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
I would take that usage of 'pop out' to mean like 'jump out'. I'm imagining a pop-up book. Maybe?
― kinder, Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
isn’t “pop” the verb and “in” the direction you’re popping tho? As in, not a phrasal verb?
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
Sorry, LL.
― Alba, Thursday, 24 June 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
Pop (for My Love)
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 June 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
In the US you "ring up" a customer's purchases at the cash register. (Which is likely a computer terminal which does not make a ringing noise. Antique phrasing lingering into the present.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 25 June 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link
in american football defensive coordinators 'dial up a blitz' for no earthly reason at all, but that's the hackneyed cliche
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 June 2021 00:53 (three years ago) link
I ate up my popover after popping in to the pop-up
― heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Thursday, 1 July 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
I popped the question to the poptimist
― jmm, Thursday, 1 July 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
Overuse of 'aesthetic' as synonymous with 'style'
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 2 July 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
No that’s good
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 2 July 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
the british expression "all sorts"
i don't know why, but i hate it so much, hate it hate it hate it hate it
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
dolly mixture is better
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
I like it when it describes a bad of licorice
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
*bag
well sure that’s a different pack of sweets altogether
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
"we can take that one away and have a look at it"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 July 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
"quick wins"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 13:41 (three years ago) link
How dyou feel abt "one and done"
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
hmm what's the context
i think i've only heard it referring to e.g. a basketball playoff. 'oh the sixers? they're going to be one and done'
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
"guys theres fifteen tickets there i want someone to review and identify the quick wins and any oneandones we can bat away"
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
Have heard "one and done" a lot this year re the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
Yeah broadly speaking it captures the concept
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
ok in this context i definitely hate it
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
Yes thats right
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
I got the J&J and used that phrase a few times, I am guilty of this
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
Almost started an ILM thread about this, but then wasn’t sure how many examples there were:Names of bands shortened by fans, or at least the ones where an s is added. The Chemicals, The Foos
― Alba, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
Somehow I hear them all in a Steve Lamacq voice. I guess The Manics is the classic one, though not as annoying as the previous two.
― Alba, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
The rollings
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
I hate Macca for Paul McCartney too.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
It's probably fine in a Scouse accent though tbf.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
Curiously, it doesn’t seem to follow that the longer band names are the most subjected to this. No one called the Incredible String Band “the Incredibles” or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “the Claps”, afaik
― Alba, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
The Replacements became The Mats (from placemats)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
What about when big corps start calling themselves the abbreviated usage? FedEx being the big one, KFC another
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link