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Traditional definition: involving or referencing something or someone.
Current definition: to be a cause for concern.
Traditional: Myra and her mom had a discussion concerning her grades at school.
Current: Myra's low grades are concerning. She'd better talk to her mom about getting a tutor.
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1) This exists.
2) This is a current fad, fashion, or meme.
People really do travel to dangerous places just to take selfies. It's hard to believe that this is a thing.
Newt Scamander cosplay? This is a thing!
A smartwatch with an analog display: is this really a thing?
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A company with a very large number of brick and mortar outlets, often national if not worldwide. The corporate cultures of these profit-driven companies usually include an expectation of consistency from store to store, enforced by a rigid set of rules and a series of metrics that often measure variables which are outside their employees' control. This does not protect said employees from the consequences of failing to meet those standards.
Some of the best-known McCorporations include McDonald's (duh), Wal-Mart and Aldi.
A metaphor for having done something you regret and can't take back. As with too much alcohol, the more Mistake Whiskey you consume, the worse you feel; especially the next day. Coined by J. Jacques in his webcomic Questionable Content.
"I had already drunk three quarters of the bottle of Mistake Whiskey, so I figured I might as well finish the whole thing."
A rare weather event combining freezing rain and lightning, similar to thundersnow.
For the first big storm of the spring we've gotten a crazy mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain, thunder and lightning; it's either a freak thundersleet phenomenon or a sign of the Snowpocalypse!
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A bout of warm, springlike weather toward the end of winter; the opposite of an Indian summer.
I think we ought to dub this period of unseasonably warm weather a 'Colonial spring' because:
1) It wasn't invited and it's not supposed to be here,
2) It seems like a blessing at first, but you suspect a global calamity may be lurking,
3) Its 'gifts' are often laden with nasty surprises like illness and flash flooding, and
4) Things could turn ugly again really quickly, without warning, despite assurances to the contrary.
A fancy way of saying that you just did or learned something for the first time today.
I was today years old when I found out that it's called duck tape and not duct tape.
He finally lost his virginity when he was today years old.
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