Bless your heart. | Bless her heart. | Bless his heart.

What does it mean?
What is the [likely] origin of the phrase, as #colloquialism?

@stefan please #forgive me if I mess up the #colloquialism and #feel #free to #smash it in the #comments for those not referencing #movie #parlance but #speak it #IRL

I'd be happy to #hear er #read them.

He be a wee 'mite #greedy #twat that one, eh?

#ShadyVance (#JDVance) isn't just out to get #ChildlessCatLadies — his #weird #plans target #dogpeople and #grandmas, too.

The #selfstyled #expert on the #ladies now claims "#normal" #women don't care about #reproductiverights!

— To use a #Southern #Colloquialism: #Hogwash.

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/16/jd-vance-isnt-just-out-to-get-cat-ladies--his-weird-plans-target-dog-people-and-grandmas-too/

#englishlanguage #english #language #slang #colloquialism #common #uk #onlyfoolsandhorses #comedy #funny
“Pillock, Pratt, Plonker and Tosspot.”
Put together they sound like a team of Victorian lawyers…

https://news.sky.com/story/pillock-plonker-and-tosspot-among-british-insults-at-risk-of-dying-out-13132070

Just pondering the difference between singular and plural abstract amounts and whether there is some kind of regional difference between them

In Australia, we often use an uncountable plural: we will say ‘shitloads’, ‘tons’ or ‘heaps’

I associate ‘loads’ with UK usage in contexts where AU we’d say ‘lots’

I associate the singular with US usage: ‘a crapload’, ‘a ton’

Because of metric usage I have often had to spell it ‘tonne’ because I have not been able to convince editing clients that the spelling should reflect a semantic difference between a measurable tonne and the figurative ton

‘tonne’ is pronounced with a short o
‘ton’ is pronounced with a short u

And ‘a ton’ or more commonly ‘the ton’, pronounced ‘tun’ cf. the historical social elite) is a common AU colloquialism for ‘100’

#language #EnglishLanguage #editing #dialect #colloquialism

@hacks4pancakes #IfyouDontKnowNowYouKnow "#Gaslighting is a #colloquialism, loosely defined as #manipulating someone so as to make them question their own #reality. The term derives from the title of the 1944 #American film #Gaslight, which was based on the 1938 British theatre play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton, though the term did not gain popular currency in #English until the mid-2010s"

#TheMoreYouKnow

People in the UK are so entertained by the country's numerous colloquialisms for bread.

For some reason.

#bread #colloquialism