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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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pray tell

For demanding an answer. In my opinion, it adds a friendly layer of irony, indicating that you cannot see a possible reason for something :

And pray tell, what purpose does it serve? 🙄

Describes self sabotaging tendencies (while showing good will and effort).

I thought you quit smoking last month – yea, half Sisyphus, half rolling stone🥲

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Much of a muchness.

Used to describe something redundant or superfluous. Naming a cat is much of a muchness; it won't come when you call it anyway.

That's not how you play cricket.

Used when someone or something is obviously bending or breaking the rules in an ungentlemanly manner. Capitalism is not how you play cricket.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"not how you play cricket"

I (native UK English speaker)'ve only ever heard it with "cricket" in an adjectival form. As in "that's just not cricket".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's very possible that I have it a bit twisted. I'm a South African, and English is my second language.