is kinda becoming the new "have a nice day" - an expression that began as a simple pleasantry that evolved to become sorta a self-aware signifier of expressing a simple pleasantry, and later took on a more layered meaning. "Good luck with that" is no longer really about wishing someone good luck with something, it's almost like it means, "What you propose to do is likely to fail and I don't care."
Are there other expressions like this?
― sarahel, Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:58 (sixteen years ago)
"Be lucky"
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:00 (sixteen years ago)
Who says "be lucky"?
― bamcquern, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:16 (sixteen years ago)
cockney geezers
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:17 (sixteen years ago)
Oh.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)
yeah i hadn't heard it either.
― sarahel, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:27 (sixteen years ago)
We don't know many cockney geezers.
― bamcquern, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:28 (sixteen years ago)
but seriously - what other expressions are there that evolve to come to mean almost the opposite of their initial meaning?
― sarahel, Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)
"great thread"
― Lamp, Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago)
on ilx - definitely, good one.
― sarahel, Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago)