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sara09
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We use this expression in Italian, don't know if there's a similar one in French. It means having a lot of success when on stage, doing a performance very well. For example, if a concert has a big res

silver
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We say twenty nineteen.  We might sometimes say two thousand and nineteen, but we'd never say two nineteen.   Next year will be twenty twenty

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That's exactly how I get it!   (Even though I speak neither Italian nor French and I'm not even a native speaker of English so my opinion is probably irrelevant... )

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Vedrana

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what does "drop it like it's hot" means:blink:

 

:roftl::roftl:is that from some hiphop song?

I think that's where I heard that expression!:naughty:

 

the way I understood it: to drop something from your hands, like you would if it was hot, so that you don't burn your fingers :lmfao:

 

now, let's wait for some English people to explain it:mf_rosetinted:

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:roftl::roftl:is that from some hiphop song?

I think that's where I heard that expression!

 

the way I understood it: to drop something from your hands, like you would if it was hot, so that you don't burn your fingers :lmfao:

 

now, let's wait for some English people to explain it:mf_rosetinted:

 

:lmao:

 

yup it's snoop dog..

 

yeah i think we should wait somebody to explain:naughty:

 

i understand what it means but it could have a metaphor meaning

 

otherwise it doesn't make sense :blink:

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Yeah to be honest I never thought about where the phrase came from but I just looked it up on Urban Dictionary and it explains it :wink2: :

 

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Circa 1982 - Refers originally to glass crack pipes and how they were dropped while being passed around a circle of people.

Then with the popularity of urban culture came to be associated with anything "hot".

 

B.

1) Referring to a dance move where a girl drops her ass to the floor and gets freaky.

 

(2) A basketball term for dropping shots through the hoop.

 

(3) A term for rappers when they drop lines/bars/rhymes that're hot.

 

C.

phrase most commonly associated with urban music industry and young adults. derived from its literal meaning, if an item is 'hot' you 'drop it, colloquially it has come to serve several different purposes. It is often compared to or paired with the phrase 'brush ya shoulders off' and suggestive movement.

 

1. describing a person dancing, usually in a provocative manner, dropping their 'booty' toward the floor and rising rythmically.

 

 

:thumb_yello: :thumb_yello:

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thanks for explanations!

I don't think I'm going to use that expression...nor dance...:blink:

It was better till I thought that it's just dropping something warm out of hands:naughty:

 

:lmao: hahahaha yeah I know what u mean...:bleh::thumb_yello:

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Yeah to be honest I never thought about where the phrase came from but I just looked it up on Urban Dictionary and it explains it :wink2: :

 

A.

Circa 1982 - Refers originally to glass crack pipes and how they were dropped while being passed around a circle of people.

Then with the popularity of urban culture came to be associated with anything "hot".

 

B.

1) Referring to a dance move where a girl drops her ass to the floor and gets freaky.

 

(2) A basketball term for dropping shots through the hoop.

 

(3) A term for rappers when they drop lines/bars/rhymes that're hot.

 

C.

phrase most commonly associated with urban music industry and young adults. derived from its literal meaning, if an item is 'hot' you 'drop it, colloquially it has come to serve several different purposes. It is often compared to or paired with the phrase 'brush ya shoulders off' and suggestive movement.

 

1. describing a person dancing, usually in a provocative manner, dropping their 'booty' toward the floor and rising rythmically.

 

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thank you:thumb_yello:

 

but i still don't understand:blink:

 

descriptions on dictionaries always confuse me more than the word's itself:sad:

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Hi! I have a question, it's also from song :naughty: (Gwen Stefani and Kate Nash :blush-anim-cl:) So, what "wind up" means?

 

Can you give the whole line, as there are different ways of interpreting these words?

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Vedrana

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Can you give the whole line, as there are different ways of interpreting these words?

 

sure, well G.S. just yells "wind it up" after some yodeling :naughty:

I'm more curious about meaning of it in "Foundations" :

Yes, it was childish and you got aggressive,

and I must admit that I was a bit scared,

but it gives me thrills to wind you up.

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sure, well G.S. just yells "wind it up" after some yodeling :naughty:

I'm more curious about meaning of it in "Foundations" :

Yes, it was childish and you got aggressive,

and I must admit that I was a bit scared,

but it gives me thrills to wind you up.

 

It sounds like GS means either (1) go faster (you wind up a clockwork toy to make it go) or (2) bring the song to an end (this should really be wind it down, but people use the same phrase to mean opposite things).

 

This is why English is so confusing :roftl:

 

But in Kate's case, she is using it to mean to annoy someone almost to breaking point (winding up something so hard that the spring is really tight and it explodes)

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Vedrana

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Thanks! I understand now :flowers2:

 

In "Foundations" video when she sings that there is a little clockwork toy, so I guess it's some kind of playing with those two meanings.

(now i really hope i know what clockwork toy is:naughty:)

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Wind up is a really common saying here Verdrana.

I am usually on the wind up, it's just my sense of humour.

Somebody who does it a lot can be called a wind up merchant.

If you don't believe what someone is telling you, you can say "are you winding me up?" etc

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Vedrana

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Hey! Good idea for a thread!!:wink2:

I have a question about abbreviations, such as lmao and all the others you use, but which I don't understand...

most of those abbreviations have something to do with laughing...

thank you babs!

 

(you gave me an extra r :naughty:)

 

but, that's ok, cause I took your panky :naughty:

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Wind up is a really common saying here Verdrana.

I am usually on the wind up, it's just my sense of humour.

Somebody who does it a lot can be called a wind up merchant.

If you don't believe what someone is telling you, you can say "are you winding me up?" etc

 

As in 'Mika is a wind up merchant with his promises of updated blogs' :wink2:

 

(It's my first visit here - but I'm a teacher.)

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well I think lmao means

 

laugh my ass (arse) off

 

most of those abbreviations have something to do with laughing...

 

 

but, that's ok, cause I took your panky :naughty:

 

 

Thanks!:wink2:

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