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Monday morning quarterback: someone who didn't actually play in the game, yet is happy, after the fact, to tell everyone else exactly how it should have been played.
Another important part is you don't have to answer any questions without a lawyer present... And the state must assign one if the defendant cannot pay for one. We tried to take our innocent until proven guilty seriously, but with the court of public opinion... Not so much.
First off, you too are so amazingly cute and hilarious. Here's the rundown: If you piss in(to) the wind, the wind is blowing the piss back onto you. Shooting the breeze is when people are just chatting or catching up. Football matches are usually on Sunday. Talking on today about what you should have done yesterday, rather than thinking about the mistakes in terms of improving for the next time, is kind of useless... voilà! 😁 "(Leave it) for the birds", most birds we see in the Northern hemisphere are quite small. Something "for the bird" must then also be small enough to carry, thus rather useless for humans... thus trivial. Dukes, could be in reference to someone named Duke. And "to fight/battle it out" also has the synonymous phrase "to Duke it out". Young people don't really use these things. It's likely something from the first half of the 20th century, or even as early as the 19th. To me, age 40, it sounds like something my great grandmother would have said, though my mother still used it when I was a kid. Behind the 8 ball. That's a sticky situation. That is the last ball that should be shot in a game of pool, and in a strict version of the game, if you hit the 8 ball without calling it first, you lose regardless of if it goes in the hole or not. Thus you are "in a tight squeeze", "between a rock and a hard place" etc... Fifth amendment lays out the "right to remain silent" to not risk incriminating oneself. Equivalent of "no comment!" By the way, I'm an American often mistaken for a Brit, because of my regional/ethnic accent and non-rhotic southern black speech, which seems to be a mishmash of 17th century Scots, Hiberno-English and East Anglian dialects with a weak rhoticity. And when speaking a more standard English, it confuses people, especially because of my phone voice. One told me "Don't call me ma'am, you're not American" to which I replied in my apparently snooty accent, "Actually, I am American." To which she replied "Well, you're living in the UK!!!" Instead of spitting back at her, "No, actually I live in the Netherlands, and if you prefer me to address as 'mevrouw', since you're calling a Dutch company based in the Netherlands..." I just hung up. Another, "Don't call me ma'am, that's so rude," - me "blablabla, term of respect" - she confused it with term of endearment and went on about how improper it is that people use "love" all the time. I didn't want to argue and asked, how I should refer to her considering she just rambled out her problem immediately without ever giving her name. She yelled "don't call me anything, just talk to me like a normal person!" Normal person??? She ended the call in calling me an f-ing c-word, because she couldn't get what she wanted without first trying to reset her device. Oh how I love language differences and confusion. Nowadays I am a language teacher and dialect coach. That's what brought me your way. Keep up the good work on breaking communication barriers! I'll maybe use your videos with my students.
@@TsalagiAgvnage OH MY GOODNESS!! I don't know the reason people were calling you, but I assume it was for some customer service issue and I have to say that anyone who has to deal with the crazy public should be given hazard or battle pay. By the way, what part of the US were you raised? The only place I could think of that would have a somewhat British accent might be the islands off of N. Carolina. Interesting that we all have different accents, isn't it?
The 5th amendment affirms an individual right not to testify against himself in a criminal proceeding. You aren't required to self-incriminate. In conversation you might use this phrase to avoid acknowledging something that puts you in a bad light.
Alan Endicott that’s actually a really good explanation! I usually just say it’s more or less your right to remain silent (to avoid self-incrimination)
I've often heard it as an admonishment: "We're here struggling to get all these materials off the truck (lorry??) And you're off shooting the breeze with the client!!!"
To "plead the Fifth refers to the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. You are invoking the legal right not to legally incriminate yourself by answering questions. We also use it jokingly or in light conversation to avoid questions we just don't feel like answering.
Most NFL games are played on Sundays during football season. To be a "Monday morning quarterback" is to have the benefit of knowing what went wrong in a given situation in the past and stating what clearly should've been done to prevent it (akin to "hindsight is 20/20"). LOVE the topic- Thanks to you both!!
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 if you can acknowledge and build off the mistakes of yesterday you can better prepare yourself for the present, today. Monday morning quarterback
Never plead the fifth to you girlfriend or wife, especially not to the who's hotter question! That's a fast track way to start a fight or be left. Maybe not right away but she will remember that and hold it against you in later arguments
Alfred Decker I didn’t do a thorough investigation. Just a quick google search. That was as much as I read. It was enough to make my earlier statement. I definitely would not make such a statement in a relationship. It almost always incriminates you in that situation.
1. Shooting The Breeze: having a casual conversation about inconsequential matters, generally to pass time 2. Monday Morning Quarterback: a person who harshly judges and criticizes things that have long ago already happened 3. For The Birds: useless, nonsensical 4. Put Up Your Dukes: get ready to fight/defend your argument 5. Behind The 8-Ball: placed in a problematic, difficult-to-escape sitatuation 6. Tabling: shoving something away and not thinking about it for a long time 7. Pleading The Fifth: not wanting/refusing to talk about a juicy or controversial topic
I think "spitting in the wind" is also used in the u.s. But it's like, you're being stupid and hurting yourself because the wind will blow the spit/piss back on you.
Shoot the breeze is actually the polite church folk version. It's more common to hear shoot the sh*t. It's just having an impromptu conversation about nothing in particular.
Yes! "Just shooting the shit" is a whole lot more common (in my area at least) than "Shooting the breeze". The second one sounds like something my grandmother would say.
1. So shoot the breeze is much more friendly than you described. It's less about pointless chatter and more about relaxing small talk. It's when you have a conversation with someone (more often than not a friend) and you just talk about whatever comes to mind. The phrase is sort of centered around the idea that you're shooting into the wind - i.e. firing off thoughts and ideas without a specific target (of conversation). Used in a sentence, "I bumped into my old buddy John last weekend. We just sat around shooting the breeze for almost 2 hours. It was great to catch up with him." 2. Monday morning Quarterback: So you're not the actual person who played in the game. The real person who experienced the game would have played on Sunday and have had to make difficult choices in real time. So you're the person who has brilliant suggestions (sarcasm) for "how I would have done it". Which is fairly easy to do if you didn't have to actually do the real work. Used in a sentence, "Listen to Charlie over there - perfect Monday Morning Quarterback - he has the answers for how everything would be better if he was in charge". 3. For the birds - pretty spot on in the written description you used. Something so useless that it could be fed to birds such as pigeons (or their ilk). Think of things such as stale bread. Used in a sentence, "Bob was over there speaking but I don't know what he was saying, whatever it was, it was for the birds". (this phrase isn't very common nowadays) 4. "Put up your dukes". This is pretty straightforward. It's a *very* old phrase and no one is going to challenge you to a fight on the street by saying it. That being said, you might tease someone like a young child by "challenging them". Used in a sentence: "Oh you want to fight me? Well then put up your dukes!" (think dad to son/daughter). Not common but not unheard of at least in the Northeast of the US. 5. "Behind the 8 ball". Have you not ever played billiards? It means a super difficult task (such as having your queue stuck behind an 8 ball when your next target isn't the 8). Used in a sentence, "Damn, I'm behind the 8 ball on this project. I'm screwed for time". 6. "Table and an item" - Standard and popular business phrase. You're putting down (and thus not actively holding it). Used in a sentence, "I'm sure we could talk about that project for hours but it isn't due to start until 4th quarter. Let's table it for now". 7. "Plead the fifth"... Sigh...Brits...must I throw Wiki at you? ;) "The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and, among other things, protects individuals from being compelled to be witnesses against themselves in criminal cases. "Pleading the Fifth" is thus a colloquial term for invoking the right that allows witnesses to decline to answer questions where the answers might incriminate them, and generally without having to suffer a penalty for asserting the right. This evidentiary privilege ensures that defendants cannot be compelled to become witnesses at their own trials." In colloquial terms - you actually got this one right! If someone asks you for gossip and you might be involved in said gossip, you would hear, "NOOooooo I'm not answering anything about what happened at Jen's party. I plead the fifth!" 5 of these are very common terms (again, at least in Boston) with 2 being generally understood but pretty uncommon in everyday use. Cute video - your American accents are just...bizarre ;) but at least harmless.
Minor clarification of you list: I think "for the birds" refers to inedible food (like stale bread) that is now worthless except for feeding to the birds. British people play snooker: Snooker doesn't involve numbered balls. You have to sink a white ball and then a colored ball and then a white ball, etc. So, British people don't have a clue about "the eight ball". You are absolutely correct about "put up your dukes" being antiquated. There is a funny scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy first encounters the Cowardly Lion. The Lion challenges everyone to "put up your dukes". This suggests that the phrase was already dated when the movie was made in 1939.
I can see that about “for the birds” and that would make sense. I’ve played Snooker (there are a few tables in the bigger billiard halls around here) but they’re always next to billiard tables. I swear I’ve played billiards against a few Britts in my lifetime... but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s highly uncommon. Thanks!
The phrase "it's for the birds" did originate from giving food to birds but over time it turned into meaning something that is useless to you, i.e. stale bread would be useless to you. So if someone gave you something you don't need/can't use, you would say "it's for the birds". I mostly hear ppl say this when someone is giving them unimportant information or telling them something they don't care about.
Very interesting video. A subtle point about the last expression: The 5th protects against self-incrimination - it protects someone from bring required to answer a question on grounds that they will incriminate themselves. If you are a witness in a criminal trial or hearing and are asked about someone else, taking the 5th would not apply. If you were a witness in a court proceeding rather than the defendant, you would be expected to answer questions. Someone has the option to take the 5th when they are the one on trial or under questioning by the government. In everyday life the expression means that you decline to answer a question to avoid getting into trouble (not necessarily legal trouble). The first 10 amendments to the Constitution, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, are not rights the government gave us. They are rights the government can never take from us.
It's used in court, and especially in congressional hearings (that's mostly what you'll see on TV since most trials aren't broadcast) but people also use it in common conversation. "Who took the last donut?" "I plead the 5th." If subpoenaed by a court or other government body (like a congressional hearing) you must appear and be subjected to questioning, but you can then just repeatedly say "On the advice of my attorneys I invoke my 5th ammendment right not to testify." In criminal trials, refusing make any statements or not testifying cannot be used against you. The jury can't infer guilt due to your silence. (If he were innocent and had nothing to hide, he'd tale the stand.) In civil cases I believe they CAN draw inferences, but I'm not sure
but used in everday language it means refusing to admit your guilt. "did you eat that last cupcake?" i plead the fifth. meaning YEP. but i'll never admit it.
Pleading the fifth is not self incriminating oneself. But it’s also not an admission of guilt either. Our first TEN rights listed in our CONSTITUTION are known as the BILL OF RIGHTS. These rights are told to the government that these are rights that limit the government. These RIGHTS ARE GIVEN TO US BY OUR CREATOR. Our Constitution limits the government thanks to how King George treated his subjects in the colonies. Please read the American Constitution it will shed light on all your questions about my Country. My ancestors fought against the crown right along side of General Washington. We Americans are Citizens and not Subjects like you Brits.
Pleading the 5th an actual legal term but used often in everyday life. For example, “did you eat my sandwich?” I actually did but don’t want to admit yet don’t want to lie so I say “I plead the 5th”. It’s actually a silly way of admitting I did It without actually saying so. Sort of tongue in cheek
Just imagine what happens if you actually piss into the wind. It blows back onto you. The phrase means doing something in such a way that it comes back on you in an unpleasant way.
A quarterback basically runs the team on field in American football. The most important games (like the SuperBowl) are held on Sundays; thus a "Monday morning quarterback" is someone who's saying how the game should have been played a day after it's over. It's similar to the idea of "hindsight's 20/20," that it's easy to have all the answers after it's all over.
To me, "shooting the breeze" has the implication of a nice relaxed chat with a good friend. And yes, not talking about anything too serious or important. By the way, I love your channel, love the UK, and love talking to British people.
Monday morning quarterback is usually used to describe someone who wasn't present in a situation but thinks they could have done it better or the "right way".
Your comment is correct. The point being that it's easy to break things down detail by detail because you have time to do so, and you already know the outcome. Someone has make a quick decision in the moment, and then others can be critical at their leisure.
Another version of this is “armchair quarterback.” Like you all have said, it’s someone who smugly thinks that he himself could have done something better, ignoring the fact that he has had the time and hindsight to make a different decision (for example). But “Monday morning quarterback” can also include the person himself being self-critical, after the fact, and after having had time to analyze a situation.
It's a back-handed way of describing someone who has all the benefit of hindsight when judging a situation or other people's decision. American football is generally played on a Sunday. The quarterback is the guy on the offense yelling instructions to his team. If he's doing this on a Monday morning, he's looking at the situation and/or telling people what they should have done differently after the fact, while knowing the outcome.
Others are used under very limited times, such as table an item. You would never hear that unless you worked in a occupation that required negotiating.
pennie gwin I'm not young, and I've heard a few of these but some are just rather old or we typically just do not use. I like their videos but I kinda feel like anything "American" related, they should ask an actual American or like have Americans in their videos.
Yes, with the added little twist that it implies that they're being a bit of a know it all - like "it's so obvious that such and such was the right choice" ...well, easy enough to say now that you know how it turned out!
Kinda related to an armchair quarterback or backseat driver. Somebody who has all the answers but aren't dealing with the stress and time limits of making the decision in the moment
I agree with you, Lindsay. "Put a pin in it" is a much more common way to say that these days. However, it is a comparatively new expression, whereas "table it" has been around for a long time, but has fallen out of favor (favour, for the Brits reading this ;-).
1. "Shooting the breeze" is casual, meaningless conversation (i.e. 2 friends talking about nothing of importance). 2. "A Monday morning quarterback" is someone who talks about a situation as if they would have known exactly what to do (but only with the benefit of hindsight, as the game was played on Sunday). In use, it's typically to refer to someone else, "John said he would have gotten the deal that Jim lost, but he's just being a Monday morning quarterback." . 3. "For the birds" is something crazy or trivial that can be disregarded. "Sandra's got a money-making scheme, but it's for the birds.". 4. "Put up your dukes" is an old one not used much anymore, except in jest. It means to put your hands (dukes) up, and prepare to fight. 5. "Behind the eight ball" is from the game of pool. It's to be in a difficult situation. 6. "Table an item" is usually used in business situations. It is to discuss something at a later time (I like your version better). 7. "Plead the 5th" is the 5th Amendment. In court, the 5th Amendment means you can't be forced to incriminate yourself. It only applies to testifying against yourself. To be fair, not all Americans would have known some of these either, and you got some of them right, so kudos!
Excellent descriptions Madness by design! If you are an American and over the age of 30 more than likely you would not have heard these statements. They are not used by people in their 20s or younger or understood by them.
Madness by Design ... actually, there is a subtle difference regarding "Table an item"... ..."Table an item" is as you have said, to discuss something later... ... However, if you were to say "on the table" that would mean the subject is up for immediate discussion...
Miklos Ernoehazy, Yes, although "On the table" usually refers to bargaining (an offer is "on the table"). It's interesting that the English use both terms to describe discussing something, where we in the US use "Table an item" to set aside the discussion for later.
wow thats kind of sad even shoot the breeze like plead the 5th or put up your dukes, apparently Hannah M if your reading this I mean no disrespect but 300 to 400 million people in america and I'm american as well I'm sure around 80% of america has heard these its like saying someone beaten half to death sounds pretty violent maybe but the joke is in the phrase if you didnt catch it in the video its called a sense of humor, beating someone half to death well thats fine because they will survive unless you give them an identicalo beating immediately after so they were literally beaten half to death twice which equals death sounds morbid but if you don't get it you should get out more, after all put up your duke for people out there I believe was a comedy line way back when and it caught on and has been around forever.... however the term lets "shoot the breeze" or in less pg rated terms shoot the shit if taken literally why would you do such a thing who goes around shoot at shit or a breeze and calls it relaxing so people these two in this video are not making fun of america there just curious like example a phrase like a whole nother or every now and again or half expect or when someone says something is on a whole new level, or how about something we hear alot like someone saying I got a shit ton of something or how about that shit, its almost as stupid sound as someone saying lemme aks you and yes I mispelled that on purpose, the term this is the shit yet its a compliment yet its at times good food being compared to feces with a positive outlook like damn this steak is the shit, or far out man, or when people saying they will pray for you at unnesesary occasions
I’ve always taken the phrase “Monday morning quarterbacking” as somebody who positions themselves as having all the answers. “If only they did this or that” - offering up strategies and actions that should’ve been taken, but not acknowledging that their insights are informed by the benefit of hindsight.
Incubus has a song when I found out that they used "piss in the wind" I didn't know if they were British or American so I looked it up and they were American so thank you for confirming that we use it, too.
I've heard this mostly in this sentence "sitting on the poarch shooting the breeze". Given my county cousins they are likely armed wait for some unluck squirrel to pass by.
Exactly. It has to do with refusing to answer a question in a court of law because a truthful answer would make one look outright guilty or guilty by association.
@@rockabye274 I think it's more used by people who committed an act but when on the witness stand has a right to "plead the 5th" (self incrimination). Used instead of denying guilt and committing perjury. Totally legal and not committing perjury (a crime in itself). If the court finds them guilty then they can't throw in a perjury charge.
It’s much easier to understand if you say the entire 5th amendment phrasing: “I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me. “ In the 5th amendment to the constitution no one can be forced to testify against themselves. In an everyday situation it’s become something of a non-admission of guilt. For example if someone says, “Did you eat that last piece of cake I was saving for myself?” And another person says “Um, I plead the Fifth”, it’s a funny way of acknowledging that you did without outright saying yes.
I’m 36 and most of these aren’t commonly used. Most of these are expressions used by baby boomers and older. Some of them conjured images of the Great Depression for me. Lol.
Plead the fifth .... if a group of men are at work and they’re “shooting the breeze “ one asks “ have you ever dropped acid?” The other man says “I plead the fifth” . He basically saying that he’s not answering the question in affirmative nor in negative. It does in fact refer to the fifth amendment of the US bill of rights which protects people from self incrimination.
I agree with this, but I'd also like to add that when the man says "I plead the fifth" in response to the question he's implying that he HAS done acid and simply isn't going to verbally affirm it. Because "pleading the fifth" has such a strong connection to Law and crime the unspoken context is that you DID do something, but aren't going to confim that you have and incriminate yourself.
Americans, with our Constitution to protect our rights, tend to exercise our rights even when we don't NEED to exercise them. For example, pleading the fifth does not necessarily imply that we are guilty. The 5th amendment right not to testify against one self is a natural right AFFIRMED by our constitution not granted by it. (same for the rest of the Bill of Rights). Our existence does not compel us to testify against ourselves, regardless of guilt. Of course the 5th amendment in our bill of rights CAN BE used in the way described, one cannot be convicted based on lack of testimony again oneself. Therefore, pleading the fifth in casual conversation is usually tongue-in-cheek meaning "of course I did it". Not so in legal proceedings.
"I plead the fifth" Literally, "I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me." If someone accuses you of a crime, they must provide the proof. The court system cannot force you to confess or otherwise give answers that might substantiate your guilt. Obviously, in normal conversation, the meaning becomes, "I'm not gonna answer that because then I'll get in trouble/you'll be mad at me."
Fifth Amendment is about SELF incrimination. You don't have to testify if doing so implicates yourself in a crime. So if I'm trespassing illegally and see a crime and the police want me to testify, but I can't explain how I saw it without admitting I was somewhere I was not allowed to be myself, I could plead the fifth to avoid testifying to that issue. So when people "plead the fifth," it means they can't really answer the question without making themselves look guilty or bad in some way. Of course, most people, colloquially, take pleading the fifth to mean you are guilty of something.
Hair splitting. Legally, plead is a synonym for invoke or assert. Not that it matters as this is about the common, colloquial saying, which is to "plead the fifth."
They also can take the fifth so that their words can’t be twisted. It’s just a barrier of protection from the government. Let’s say you say I saw them do it. Then the prosecutor says oh so you know then, you say no but st this point you’ve spoken about them so much you kinda know them. They can say well you know who to pick out. Trying to defend yourself against open questioning taking the fifth can be the way to go. Only give details to your lawyer. They know legalese better. They can give your statements.
A LOT is included in the 5th Amendment. Grand Juries, Double-Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process, Property Seizure. Here's the full text: "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." When you invoke your 5th Amendment Rights (aka "Plead the 5th"), you invoke the phrase: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". That is, even if you're guilty of a crime, you cannot be forced to say "I did it". Also, if you tell your lawyer (BritSpeak: Barrister) that you actually DID the crime, he/she also cannot tell the court that you did it. To do so would be to break Attorney-Client Privilege. The only exception to Attorney-Client Privilege is if your lawyer actually abetted you in committing the crime. (see what's going on now in the case of Michael Cohen, Trump's attorney -- they cannot plead Attorney-Client Privilege, because Cohen abetted Trump in his dealings with Stormy Daniels) I know -- from watching TONS of British courtroom dramas -- that British law works VERY differently than this. If you tell your Barrister you're guilty, he/she is duty bound to tell the court, report that you're guilty, and you're done. Carted off to jail. It was against this history of British Common Law that the drafters of the U.S. Constitution wanted to guard against.
Yes. I was kind of trying to tell them this as they were trying to understand it. But Joel and Lia couldn’t hear me through the TH-cam. Ah well. 😂 The explanation on the video is not really how people use it. It basically means a situation sucks.
"Plead the Fifth" is most definitely an American expression because it's based on the constitution. The Fifth amendment allows you to prevent testifying against or incriminating yourself in whatever you're being accused of. The text says "... nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..."
Once I was asked by an American 'Tell me all about your hood' I had no idea that he was inquiring about my neighbourhood. My reply was, "well it is attached to my jacket and it prevents my hair from getting wet when it rains"
That's funny. I am American and "hood" is African American slang Now more mainstream. As an older American when I first heard it I thought they were talking about the hood of their car or to Brits the bonnet.
"Monday morning quarterback" is not only criticizing someone after the fact, but also the person doing the criticizing is not an expert in the field he's criticizing. The term "armchair quarterback" is similar.
I'm 52 and I think "Shootin' the shit" is just a late 20th century adapation of "shootin' the breeze." I.e., it's more of a generational shift than a regional difference insofar as words that were more restricted in their use due to stricter cultural norms have gradually become more accepted. If you ask old-timers from your region I bet they rememeber that there was a time that "Shoot the breeze" was in use (and perhaps for them still is). Along th same vein, In my youth, 45rpm vinyl "records" (aka "singles"), and/or the versions played on the radio of popular songs used to censor certain words that were in the LP version. One case in point, among many: "Jet Airliner" by the Steve Miller Band (first band I saw live back around '78 at Crisler Arena in ANN ARBOR, MI) changed the verse "Funky SHIT goin' down in the city" to "Funky KICKS going down in the city" for their single release/radio play.
exactly what they sound like. peanuts boiled while in their shells. they are very big in alabama, they are even found in cans... i consider them to be on the same level as vienna sausage, sardines, and spam.
"Shoot the breeze" LOL. I don't think I've heard that phrase in about 20 years. When I hear it, I think of two old men sitting on a porch in rocking chairs talking about the weather. Younger people do say "shoot the shit" a lot. When I say it, I'm referring to getting together and hanging out casually. "Man, it's been a minute since we shot the shit. Lets go get a drink sometime soon.) "Pissing into the wind" was a common phrase when I grew up in Connecticut in the 80's and 90's. I might use it in reference to a stupid and futile effort with potentially bad consequences. I think the more modern version is "pissing upstream" or "pissing on a wall". "Bud, you're pissing into the wind trying to lift that rock." Again, it's kind of an outdated phrase. "Monday Morning Quarterback" is someone who has all the right answers to something that's gone wrong, because they've already seen the outcome. Sunday is a big day for American Football, so when someone is being a monday morning quarterback, they're arguing that their favorite losing team should have done this and that the day after the game ended, or for any other failed endeavor. It's simply a strange way to say that "hindsight is always 20/20". "For the birds" Lia's first instinct is totally right. I would say that phrase if something is useless or stupid to me. For example, those life hack videos are for the birds. My guess is the phrase originated in the city where it's pretty common to get up off a park bench after a snack or lunch, shake off food crumbs or a little scrap of bread, and see a bunch of pigeons gather to try and get a bite. "Put up your dukes" likely comes from the American slang of "duking it out" which means fighting. That's another old timey phrase that makes me think of the 1950's. "Behind the 8 ball" is a reference to a pool (billiards) game. The game ends when either opponent sinks all 7 of their balls (striped/solid in the US or red/yellow in the UK) and then finally the all black 8 ball to win the game, or if the 8 ball is accidentally knocked into a pocket, at which point the offending player automatically loses. If the all white cue ball (the only ball you can hit with the cue) winds up resting behind the 8 ball to line up your next shot, you have very limited options to sink a shot and thus give up your turn. Your turn ends when you miss a shot, thus the phrase "cleared the table" or "ran the table" when someone does something so well that their opponent never had a chance. "Tabling" an item comes from the business world, meaning that the problem can't be solved at the moment or in a timely manner, and it's time to move on to easier or more pressing issues until there's time to readdress the problem. I use this phrase often. I might say that I'm going to table fixing the lawnmover until after I repair a leak in the roof, because the lawnmower is a time consuming task that holds less precedent than a damp house, or that I'm having trouble with a project and I table it in order to complete other tasks that need to be done. I'm putting the project back on the table until I have time to get back to it. The British version also makes perfect sense to me. "Plead the fifth" is something you would only know if you live in America or are familiar with our constitutional amendments and criminal law. The 5th amendment to the US constitution declares that a person cannot be forced to be a witness against themselves in a criminal case, say anything that would incriminate themselves, and that they have the legal right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions regarding an inquest against themselves. In everyday American culture, it's a suggestive admission of guilt without confirming any facts. It's not a very common phrase to hear, and is usually used as wry humor by normal Americans when an uncomfortable question is asked and we'd rather not declare something outright, but admit to it indirectly. "did you sleep with that girl you met last night?" "I plead the fifth." "Ohhhhhhhhh!!!!!" It's kind of anachronistic nowadays.
The expression "it's for the birds" didn't start as American slang, it came from Victorian London. It was a polite way of saying "Horse Shit", because birds would often be seen eating seeds out of said "Horse Shit", hence, It's for the birds. Horse shit. Which covers useless, worthless, ect. It was coined in the same part of London as "falling off the wagon", wherein convicts who were on the way to their executions past a famous pub (forget its name, still around today tho) would "fall off the wagon" into the pub. I'm an American but I love our language, please upvote so they can see this.
Ironically, "Put up your dukes" comes from Cockney rhyming slang, where dukes is short for duke of Yorks, which was a rhyme for forks, meaning hands. So it was originally a British phrase
@@skunkcabbages5040 The right to counsel is the 6th amendment. The 5th says that even if you have a lawyer and are sitting in the courtroom at your trial, you can't be made to talk. This is a protection against forced confessions, which historically have been extracted by coercion or even torture. So you have a right to just sit there and make the police prove their case.
That’s part of it. The self incrimination is most of it but I was always assuming this was made for times of war, as not to be forced into testifying for a side not befitting your personal cause. But I would agree that it’s used to force the accusers to prove their accusation. I was almost positive this is also the amendment including double jeopardy, and also never being incriminated without due process of law?
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This was a great video, please do a part two😂😂😂 I got some more American phrases for you: 1. Take a raincheck 2. Spill the beans 3. Ride shotgun 4. Cat got your tongue 5. Couch potato 6. Hold your horses 7. Giving someone the cold shoulder 8. Bury the hatchet 9. Do something cold turkey 10. Diddly squat 11. Piece of cake 12. He's going to pop the question 13. Under the weather 14. Put the cart before the horse 15. You do the math Here's some more American phrases for you😎 1. Grab some grub, 2. From the wood works, 3. Heard from the grapevine 4. He's from the sticks, 5. Not in my book 6. Count sheep 7. Sold me a lemon 8. Taking candy from a baby 9. Cat out of the bag 10. Play second fiddle 11. From the other side of the tracks 12. Not on my watch
"Shooting the breeze" is talking about unimportant things. Kind of going off the idea that someone saying trivial things is really just expelling so much air from their mouths, i.e. being a windbag. "Monday Morning Quarterbacking" is also known as "armchair quarterbacking". Second-guessing what someone else has done specifically by saying you'd do it better, often in great detail. It's pretty derisive, basically describing Joe Shmoe with a beer gut who last threw a pass in his freshman year of high school saying he'd call better plays than the professional quarterback of whatever team played on Sunday when he's hanging around the water cooler on Monday. When someone says something is "for the birds" they dislike it and consider it trivial, basically like stale bread crumbs, i.e. something you'd throw to birds. "Put up your dukes" is definitely put up your fists and get ready to fight. This one is pretty archaic, actually, and more than likely comes from your side of the Pond originally, i.e. from rhyming slang. "Forks" was used as slang for fists, and the phrase "dukes of York" was created as rhyming slang for "forks" and eventually was shortened to just "dukes." You're more likely to hear it in movies set in the 40s or before than in current conversation. If you're "behind the 8 ball" you're basically screwed unless you can pull off a really good trick. It is a pool term. You hit the white cue ball with your cue or stick to knock it into the other balls and knock those other balls into the holes at the edges and corners of the table. In the most-often played version of pool, one person hits the solid-colored balls (numbered 1-7) and the other hits the striped balls (numbered 9-15), and you have to get your entire set into the holes before hitting the black ball (numbered 8) into the hole to win the game. If you sink the 8 ball before you get all of your other balls, you lose. So if the cue ball is behind the 8 ball and you still have other balls to get into the holes, you may have to do some tricky shooting to get out from behind the 8 ball to sink the other balls. If you "table an item" you cease discussing it for the moment and come back to it later. It's mainly used in meetings that use Robert's Rules of Order for parliamentary procedure. The third clause of the fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution (you got it right with the Bill of Rights, which are the first 10 amendments) guarantees against self-incrimination. Properly, it's a guarantee that you can't be made to confess to a crime while on the witness stand, and if you are on the witness stand, you're usually saying "I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights" or even more formally "On advice of counsel, I am invoking my Fifth Amendment privileges against self-incrimination." Just saying "I plead the Fifth" is an informal way of technically admitting guilt without actually doing so. "I saw on Instagram you were out with your girls at the club. You said you were at your grandma's so you couldn't come to my recital!" "I plead the Fifth."
In addition to "put up your dukes," people will "duke it out," which means to have a fight. Not just any fight, though. It's more reserved for a serious physical fight, like a fist fight.
brian sky, that phrase is far older than John Wayne. It definitely does not refer to him. Ironically, it has its origin in Cockney rhyming slang, so actually originated in England.
Ahh, so true. When they said, "Put up your dukes," I had no idea what that meant. I have, however, heard people use the phrase "duke it out," quite often.
A quarterback is basically the team leader in the US football. He calls most of the plays the team will run. Most college games are on Saturday and pro games on Sunday. So on Monday morning, with the benefit of hindsight, people who didn't have to actually play in the game will claim that they would have called different plays to get superior results to what really happened. So you can Monday morning quarterback any decision after the fact--a business decision, a sports call, a political policy, etc--with the benefit of total hindsight, and with no real skin in the game or anything on the line yourself (making second guessing both easy and pointless).
@NekoMouser: Your explanation is pretty much correct. One nuance is that the "Monday morning quarterback" is also someone who has probably never played organized football or at least not past the age of 12. Yet they speak as if they are some sort of expert. However we Americans most often use the phrase metaphorically and pejoritively. It refers to someone who second guesses an espert's, politician's, .managee's, etc., decision, although they have never really been in that person's position and has never had to make such a decision.
The 5th Amendment to the US Constitution is the protection against self-incrimination. So when someone invokes the 5th (or pleads the 5th) it is because they feel they could incriminate themselves.
You were close: the 5th amendment says that a person is not required to incriminate him/herself. To pleading the fifth or taking the fifth, means refusing to speak on the grounds that whatever you say could be used to incriminate you.
"except the ones that happen thursday, saturday, sunday morning, or monday night" I think going back Sunday games for the NFL were the norm, and then later, in the 1970s or so, Monday night football came in. Later came Thursday games. Looking up the term on the web, it dates back to 1940 to 1945.... so it's been around for a while.
Listening to this podcast made me want to put up my dukes because I felt I was behind the 8 ball. If any action takes place, I'll just plead the 5th. I don't want to Monday morning quarterback this so let's shoot the breeze when you have a chance. For now, let's table this as most people will think this is for the birds. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Pleading the 5th refers to the 5th amendment to the United States Constitution, one of many Amendments that make up the "Bill of Rights." After the colonies won independence and formed the United States, they wrote the Constitution, which is the fundamental and supreme law of the nation. But the Constitution only enumerated and divided the powers of the government, but did not restrict the government or guarantee any individual rights to the people. So shortly after the Constitution was ratified, it had a number of Amendments which all guaranteed individual rights or limited the government. You Brits may have heard of the 2nd Amendment. That's the fundamental law that guarantees that Americans can own weapons such as firearms. Well the 5th Amendment does numerous things, but one thing it does is ensures that you cannot be forced to testify or give evidence against yourself in any criminal matter, or any matter in which you believe you could be accused or charged of a crime. In practical terms this means that you can never be forced to speak to any officer of the court (police, lawyer, judge, etc). You can still be arrested, charged, or convicted, but the state cannot compel you to testify or give any statement.
Pleading the 5th is used to not incriminate yourself. Not someone else. You don't have to testify if what you'll say will basically be an admission of guilt.
In fact, if you are a witness in ANOTHER person’s trial, or in the investigation leading to a trial, you can “take the Fifth” if your answer would incriminate you for ANY crime, even a totally unrelated one.
Pleading the fifth refers to he 5th amendment of the US Constitution. Which guarantees that you cannot be forced to incriminate yourself.I f I am breaking into a house and see another crime happening, I cannot be forced to testify about the crime I witnessed if that testimony would include admitting I was breaking into the house. Thus incriminating myself of the crime of burglary. Pleading the fifth can also mean, I'm not going to discuss this when used in normal conversation. Hope that helps
a Monday morning quarterback means you’re second guessing what happened on Sunday it makes perfect sense you’re second guessing things after the fact and it’s usually somebody who never actually played football
"Behind the 8 ball" - In pool, hitting the 8 ball into a pocket before you've cleared all of your other balls off the table results in immediate loss of the game. Additionally, striking the 8 ball without sinking it is a foul as is failing to strike any other ball. Hence, if the cue ball is behind the 8 ball, you are in a situation where there are not many likely scenarios with a good outcome.
Behind the 8 ball. When you play table-pool, the 8 ball HAS to be hit last. If your cue ball lands in a position where the 8 ball is in the way of you shot, then you will have to bounce the cue off of a wall inti a different ball just to avoid hitting the 8 ball. So yeah a very difficult situtaion
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The phrase is directly related to "Sunday Night Football" and generally describes someone who brags they would not have made the bad decision that resulted in a loss. It was more common twenty years ago.
Tsunami1972 it's a a difference in parliamentary procedure. In the Westminster system, "tabling a motion" is to bring it up for debate. In Roger's Rules, it's to put the motion aside. This gets very confusing if you're not clear on what system a country works under.
Unlike simply quashing the subject being “tabled,” this is used at official proceedings (under Roberts Rules) for something for which further information or input is required. For example, at a typical US yacht club, when someone is trying to resign, they can’t until it’s been verified that they’re all paid up to date. If not, their bill keeps racking up. So, let’s say the Board doesn’t have that info; they’d “table” the motion until such time as the question is answered.
Even ordering food and drinks is sometimes different from state to state. Like ordering soda, soda pop, pop, cola,fountain drink, carbonated beverage, tea, sweet tea, iced tea, and hot tea.
i got a friend who drives me up the wall. she used to live on the other side of town as me. when we go to starbucks, i call it a coffee, she calls it a coffee drink. ...it drives me up the wall, we already know you plan on drinking it, it's not a coffee eat. lol ...what makes it worse? i call it a latte, she calls it a latte coffee drink. >_
Monday morning quarterback = Backseat Driver. Someone who isnt in a position to do things, telling you how it should be done. Usually using the power of hindsight.
cooldes4593 I’m American and I’ve never heard of it. But now it makes sense, there are no quarterbacks on Monday (or their didn’t used to be) quarterbacks only played on Sunday.
Aree Oree they use monday because you watch footbal games on sunday, then at work(or school if you are younger) on monday people always talk about the games and say how a team coulsve done better. This makes them monday morning quarterbacks
cooldes4593 Similar to hindsight is 20/20 where you have someone who thinks they know everything and ALWAYS gives their opinion after the fact so obviously they have the benefit of how things actually turned out.
Omg! I very much dislike backseat drivers!! Especially when its someone breathing down your neck because they're absolute control freaks who don't think anyone else can do it right.
Monday Morning Quarterback is a more specific variant of "hindsight is 20/20" but the person in question is acting haughty. US Football at the professional level is played on Sundays, so Monday morning you'll always get the person who has the "perfect" analysis that they can tell you after the fact, but couldn't have told you the same on Saturday.
It's the "should've done" guy. "They should've handed it off rather than pass on that third and seven in fourth quarter. If they'd run the ball they could have gotten the first down. The pass ended up going going wide so clearly running was the way to go" when there's no way the quarterback or receiver in that play could possibly have predicted that the pass would go wide. The guy that laments that the pass was poorly executed and complains "my god I can't believe he missed that pass" on Monday morning is not a Monday morning quarterback, he's a guy frustrated with a lapse in player skill. The guy who goes on about how HE would have done it, or how it" should've been done" is a Monday morning quarterback. (Unless you ARE that quarterback in that play the next day, mulling over how to better approach a similar situation next time, which is just strategy, but you're still technically a quarterback on a Monday morning so...)
Oddly enough, in the US we say “put it on the table” when we mean ‘talk it over’ or ‘have it out,’ but “table it” to mean ‘discuss it later.’ It’s strange semantics we have here!
Yes, "on the table" means something is currently up for discussion and specifically, it's an "option to consider" or it's an idea that's currently "in play"; however, while "table it" does mean to discuss later, it also implies that we DO intend to discuss it. They're not exactly opposites; in a sense they both come from the same idea of "putting something on the table for discussion" -- it's just that in the latter case we're emphasizing that we'll come back around to it later, while in the former case we're emphasizing the notion that it's available for discussion in the first place. Another way to say this is "let's put it back on the table" as in "we'll put it down and pick it up again later." A closely related phrase is "put a pin in [something]" as in, we're going to set this aside for now, but we'll pin a note up on a bulletin board/wall to remind us to come back to it.
2:40 I feel this could have been explained better. It's more like "Hindsight is 20/20." Like, having a solution only AFTER knowing the original attempt was wrong.
Joel was pretty spot on with his attempt at making sense of the phrase. I'd describe it as a sports fan analyzing what his team did wrong the next day. Another similar phrase would be "armchair quarterback" in which a fan analyzes what the team could have done better while watching a game from the comfort of his own home.
See, I've always felt that phrase was more akin to the phrase "backseat driver" - it's a person who thinks they know what the REAL (sunday night) quarterback needed to do to win. It's not only about hindsight because it also implies the person has no real control over or experience in the situation :)
The Monday Morning Quarterback is the guy in the office who is yelling about what everyone did wrong during the 🏈 game yesterday. He always thinks he knows what to do even though he doesn’t really have a clue. He is a really annoying guy.
So fun you two! American here. I’ve heard of all of these. My dad is 50 years older than me so he used all of these when I was growing up. Some phrases are used today, some not so much. Depends on age and region of the country. Makes sense that some Americans haven’t heard of some of these.
1. "Shoot the breeze" not only means idle conversation, but it means relaxed, and non-confrontational. You wouldn't "shoot the breeze" with someone you don't like, and any form of argument is not "shooting the breeze." Another term is "small talk" but "shoot the breeze" implies a longer conversation. "Shoot the breeze" would likely not apply to old women gabbing because there's no excited or impatient speech or topic of conversation when "shooting the breeze." "Shoot the breeze" also implies a conversation is completely un-steered. There is no central topic of conversation, you just talk about whatever to be friendly. 2. Professional American football played primarily on Sunday. A "Monday morning quarterback" is a lay person who critiques what a team's quarterback [who executes the offensive plan each play] _should_ have done in a particular situation in the game the next morning to his lay person buddies, probably while at work. However, it's extremely presumptuous, as it's difficult for a lay person to realistically put himself in the position of the professional quarterback, and the game is over so it doesn't matter anyways. The term can also be used figuratively to describe someone out of their depth preaching wisdom about a topic they don't really have any practical experience with in a manner or time where they can't be proved inept about it. "Monday morning quarterback" is never used as a verb. 3. "For the birds" could also be said to be "for the crows" or the like. It refers to petty or unimportant bits that interest no one except those who rely or depend on them for survival. "For the lesser, common folk" could have a similar connotation in some contexts. 4. "Put up your dukes" is the same as "put up your fists, and prepare to fight!" (hand to hand confrontation). It's a warning to another person that you are annoyed or angry or offended and are going to fight them (without weapons), whether they're ready or not. A similar phrase is "to duke it out" which means to engage in hand-to-hand combat. For both, "dukes" means *fists* directly. 5. The "behind the 8 ball" has disputed origin, but definitely comes from the collective of billiard games of Pool, which involves striking wooden balls with a long rod on a flat, felt, and enclosed surface with the goal of driving all of the balls into holes at the edges of the table. For many types of games of Pool, only the "cue ball" can be struck at the other balls. Because of this, it's possible the cue ball may come to rest in a position that is tricky or impossible to skillfully strike further according to the rules. It means to be in a "no-win" or impossible situation. 6. "To 'table' an item" means to intend to get back to it at a later date. This would usually be uttered at a meeting, such as a committee meeting, where a a planned agenda is being followed, and an item on the agenda can't be resolved immediately. It would be "Tabled" for further discussion later or another meeting. "To table" could also be used as a verb to mean to put something at its proper place on the dinner table, especially for a dinner party. 7. "Plead the fifth" comes directly from the U.S. Constitution. The Fifth Amendment states that you are not obligated to give testimony that criminally implicates or condemns yourself. Many people assume that the only reason someone would "plead the fifth" is because they know they're guilty of something and do not want to give evidence to it, but this is not the case. Even the appearance of an impropriety can be used as a reason to "plead the fifth" even when one is not actually guilty. In all cases here, "plead" means the legal term of declaration of position or disposition.
On number two there is a related term. "Armchair quarterbacking" another related term is if you say someone is being and "Armchair general". They are just variations on the same saying. Though with the "armchair general" one it normal is in relation to someone that does it in reference to decisions made by military leaders (mostly of ones in the field).
I think their guess on for the birds may be close to where the saying comes from (though not what it is used for). If you have something (at least when it comes to food) that is worthless or left over (garbage) you throw it out where the birds then end up eating it and/or picking at it. And I think that then over time became the saying "for the birds"
A Monday morning quarterback is someone who thinks they can do your job better than you despite having no experience and waits until your done to explain all your mistakes. And it's a noun.
"For the birds" can have a couple of meanings, but essentially means "that's ridiculous" or "pay no attention to such a trivial thing." Or, "He's for the birds" can mean "he's gone off the deep end." In certain variations in the game of billiards ("pool"), you cannot hit the 8 ball with the cue or cue ball if there are other balls left to play, the 8 ball being the last ball you may play. So you may be in the position of another ball that must be played but you can't because the 8 ball is in the way.
Yes Joel you were really close, a Monday Morning Quarterback is usually someone who is considered a sports expert who talks about the game after it has happened critiquing it really hard saying what they could have done better. It's kind of like the American Football version of a backseat driver just after the fact and not during.
"Monday Morning Quarterback" is a bit of an insult. It is saying that the person who is commenting on how the team -should- have played (what plays the quarterback should have played) now has the benefit of knowing how the whole game turned out. (There's another similar phrase: "Hindsight is 20/20".) You usually don't know that something you will try is going to be a mistake until after it fails.
LisaFlames - I'm from SoCal and I've heard this. It's a common phrase. A Monday morning quarterback might be heard saying something like, "Did you see that pass interception in the 3rd quarter? I can't believe they threw on 2nd and 3 when they were 10 points up. They should've run the ball!" Especially if their team ended up losing the game because of the blunder.
Spangelicious my husband just told me I was ridiculous for claiming to have never heard it lol. I've literally never heard it before! I have officially been educated. 😉
LisaFlames - I had that same experience with "earthquake weather" which is apparently a very common phrase in SoCal that I never heard growing up and thought someone was just making up the first time I heard it. Then it was like everyone was using it, lol.
Depending on which state your in......Or Territory or island.America is so so different because of all of this.I have lived ALL round the US. I've never used that saying and have never heard of it as well.cheers
To “table” something comes from Robert’s Rules of Order. It’s rules how to run a proper business meeting. New business, old business. If you start discussing an item and decide you want to just end the meeting and continue or restart the conversation later then you “table” whatever you are talking about.
EDubbs12 see I knew I wasn’t going crazy. I won many a Parliamentary Procedure contest for Future Business Leaders of America learning those terms and procedures.
In UK and US English the meaning is different but in both i applied in a business meeting. UK = put the document, proposal, project on the table and discuss it now. US = put the document. proposal, project aside until later. 'nuf sed
You're really to fight someone. You say, "Ok, put up your dukes!" Dukes are your closed fists! Plead the fifth. Is "I'm not going to answer that!" It doesn't hav2 to b in a U.S. Courts. It can b said among friends. Someone questioning you and they need or want an answer. You say, "I plead the fifth!" Got it? Get it? GOOD!
You just have to be carful some states have laws still on the books about the use of fighting words "Put up you're dukes", that can land you in legal trouble. Then thats where you get to use the Fifth Amendment. After that you can Monday morning quarterback the job your attorney did, while shooting the breeze about a topic thats for the birds. I know I didn't get them all but see if y'all can keep it going in a logical line, i.e. linking them together. Have fun.
In political lingo, a bill that has "passed out of committee" and is ready to be voted on is put "on the table" in front of the Speaker (leader). The Speaker can ignore it and refuse to allow a vote. If there is no vote by the end of the congressional session, the bill has failed to pass because it was "left on the table." "It died on the table" or more simply "it was tabled."
Jonathan Sandahl yes I was thinking of this one too! I use it both ways. Like in a business setting, “Let’s put it all out on the table”. And discussing too many things: “Let’s table that for later”. Haha.
Actually Tabling an item has two meanings: 1. "Lets Table it" to set it aside, and talk about it later. 2. "On the table" which means it's up for discussion:
You could say you were shooting the breeze if you're talking to someone and a 3rd person approached and asked if they interrupted a private or important conversation. "No, we were just shooting the breeze."
I feel like all these phrases were used decades ago because I’ve only ever heard older people use them except for plead the fifth that one is very much still alive 😂
1. Shoot the breeze-just hanging out and chit chatting 2. Monday morning quarterback-looking back in hindsight, blaming a decision that was made on someone or something 3. For the birds-it is ridiculous, crazy thing 4. Put up your dukes-those are fighting words, put up your fists (not literally), often in jest. 5. Behind the 8 ball-referring to a pool table and the 8 ball, I am behind the problem, but I have it under control. I have not used that as a negative statement. 6. Table this-going to put this off til later 7. Plead the fifth-not going to answer the question at hand. Can mean a legal right, when British criminal says to police, "no comment." I watch too many British crime dramas! Many of these are old statements, that younger Americans might not know. I am 63, and familiar with them! They are often said in jest, sarcastic overtone, and based on context, could mean the opposite.
In Canada, behind the 8 ball refers to being in a difficult situation. In pool, one of the games involves clearing all the balls, before touching the eight ball. To be caught behind the eight ball, is difficult to make the shot.
You did a great job of summarizing concisely! I am an American, and I agree with your summaries except for the "behind the 8 ball one". Where I am from, we use that in a negative sense--just the opposite of how you used it. So, being behind the 8-ball means being in a very unlucky spot. I guess in "pool" or "billiards", this phrase might come from the fact that if you knock the 8 ball in the hole before the end of the game, you automatically lose. I am not sure, though. But, I know we use it in the sense of being "in a very unlucky position".
I had never heard of the phrase Monday morning quarterback, and I've lived in the US all my life. Also, a common pool game involves leaving the 8 ball for last. So it very bad when you're lining up a shot, and the ball you need to sink is sitting right behind the 8 ball, because sinking the 8 ball anything but last is a loss. So that's where the saying pretty much comes from.
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Monday morning quarterback: someone who didn't actually play in the game, yet is happy, after the fact, to tell everyone else exactly how it should have been played.
Curt Bentley oooo
Perfectly described.
And I think we all know (at least) one of these 😂
A good answer to the Monday morning quarterback is that hind sight is 20-20
That's funny, I've literally never heard that before and I'm not young and have lived in a couple of regions.
kmd subs do you watch football?
Every American knows plead the fifth. It is an important protection for us.
Another important part is you don't have to answer any questions without a lawyer present... And the state must assign one if the defendant cannot pay for one. We tried to take our innocent until proven guilty seriously, but with the court of public opinion... Not so much.
Ya plead the fifth is part of the fifth amendment the right to remain silent and not incriminate oneself
First off, you too are so amazingly cute and hilarious.
Here's the rundown:
If you piss in(to) the wind, the wind is blowing the piss back onto you.
Shooting the breeze is when people are just chatting or catching up.
Football matches are usually on Sunday. Talking on today about what you should have done yesterday, rather than thinking about the mistakes in terms of improving for the next time, is kind of useless... voilà! 😁
"(Leave it) for the birds", most birds we see in the Northern hemisphere are quite small. Something "for the bird" must then also be small enough to carry, thus rather useless for humans... thus trivial.
Dukes, could be in reference to someone named Duke. And "to fight/battle it out" also has the synonymous phrase "to Duke it out". Young people don't really use these things. It's likely something from the first half of the 20th century, or even as early as the 19th. To me, age 40, it sounds like something my great grandmother would have said, though my mother still used it when I was a kid.
Behind the 8 ball. That's a sticky situation. That is the last ball that should be shot in a game of pool, and in a strict version of the game, if you hit the 8 ball without calling it first, you lose regardless of if it goes in the hole or not. Thus you are "in a tight squeeze", "between a rock and a hard place" etc...
Fifth amendment lays out the "right to remain silent" to not risk incriminating oneself. Equivalent of "no comment!"
By the way, I'm an American often mistaken for a Brit, because of my regional/ethnic accent and non-rhotic southern black speech, which seems to be a mishmash of 17th century Scots, Hiberno-English and East Anglian dialects with a weak rhoticity. And when speaking a more standard English, it confuses people, especially because of my phone voice. One told me "Don't call me ma'am, you're not American" to which I replied in my apparently snooty accent, "Actually, I am American." To which she replied "Well, you're living in the UK!!!" Instead of spitting back at her, "No, actually I live in the Netherlands, and if you prefer me to address as 'mevrouw', since you're calling a Dutch company based in the Netherlands..." I just hung up. Another, "Don't call me ma'am, that's so rude," - me "blablabla, term of respect" - she confused it with term of endearment and went on about how improper it is that people use "love" all the time. I didn't want to argue and asked, how I should refer to her considering she just rambled out her problem immediately without ever giving her name. She yelled "don't call me anything, just talk to me like a normal person!" Normal person??? She ended the call in calling me an f-ing c-word, because she couldn't get what she wanted without first trying to reset her device. Oh how I love language differences and confusion. Nowadays I am a language teacher and dialect coach. That's what brought me your way.
Keep up the good work on breaking communication barriers! I'll maybe use your videos with my students.
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@@TsalagiAgvnage OH MY GOODNESS!! I don't know the reason people were calling you, but I assume it was for some customer service issue and I have to say that anyone who has to deal with the crazy public should be given hazard or battle pay.
By the way, what part of the US were you raised? The only place I could think of that would have a somewhat British accent might be the islands off of N. Carolina. Interesting that we all have different accents, isn't it?
The 5th amendment affirms an individual right not to testify against himself in a criminal proceeding. You aren't required to self-incriminate. In conversation you might use this phrase to avoid acknowledging something that puts you in a bad light.
perfect explanation!
Um... can u repeat that?
Alan Endicott that’s actually a really good explanation! I usually just say it’s more or less your right to remain silent (to avoid self-incrimination)
AKA= I'm guilty
Wait, dose that mean they can lie by omission, when be cross examined? Or are prosecutors not able to ask them anything?
"Shooting the breeze" just means that people are having a pleasant light-hearted conversation.
Similar to "Shoot the Sh1t".
I've often heard it as an admonishment: "We're here struggling to get all these materials off the truck (lorry??) And you're off shooting the breeze with the client!!!"
To "plead the Fifth refers to the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
You are invoking the legal right not to legally incriminate yourself by answering questions.
We also use it jokingly or in light conversation to avoid questions we just don't feel like answering.
People use it as an out on daily conversations that they don't want to get into.
William B. Keck or an old school O.J. reference because of Mark Furhman.
I always thought it’s “I plea the 5th” not “I plead the 5th.”
"Fiiiif"-Dave Chapell
@@alyssainnis4432 both work
Most NFL games are played on Sundays during football season. To be a "Monday morning quarterback" is to have the benefit of knowing what went wrong in a given situation in the past and stating what clearly should've been done to prevent it (akin to "hindsight is 20/20"). LOVE the topic- Thanks to you both!!
That doesn’t make sense
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 yes it does.
@@alexbeardsley751 what I mean is the comment is unclear to me. It is really hard to parse
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 if you can acknowledge and build off the mistakes of yesterday you can better prepare yourself for the present, today. Monday morning quarterback
Example of "I plead the fifth" -
Girlfriend - "do you think my sister is hotter than me?"
Me: "I plead the fifth."
WRONG answer to girlfriend!!!! Right answer is "meh. You are the HOT one"
Never plead the fifth to you girlfriend or wife, especially not to the who's hotter question! That's a fast track way to start a fight or be left. Maybe not right away but she will remember that and hold it against you in later arguments
Pleading the fifth just means you are exercising your right to remain silent. It’s referencing the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
@@ceauxdibrooks thats only half of the amendment.. And even still wouldn't recommend saying to significant other
Alfred Decker I didn’t do a thorough investigation. Just a quick google search. That was as much as I read. It was enough to make my earlier statement.
I definitely would not make such a statement in a relationship. It almost always incriminates you in that situation.
1. Shooting The Breeze: having a casual conversation about inconsequential matters, generally to pass time
2. Monday Morning Quarterback: a person who harshly judges and criticizes things that have long ago already happened
3. For The Birds: useless, nonsensical
4. Put Up Your Dukes: get ready to fight/defend your argument
5. Behind The 8-Ball: placed in a problematic, difficult-to-escape sitatuation
6. Tabling: shoving something away and not thinking about it for a long time
7. Pleading The Fifth: not wanting/refusing to talk about a juicy or controversial topic
7 is close but it's actually refusal to comment because it incriminates oneself based on the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution.
Behind the 8 ball: at a disadvantage.
Actually, phrases like "pissing in the wind" is also used in the States.
Jim Mc Jerry Jeff Walker song from the 1970s.
I think "spitting in the wind" is also used in the u.s. But it's like, you're being stupid and hurting yourself because the wind will blow the spit/piss back on you.
Phrases like"pissing in the wind" are* also used in the States
Jim Croce - song Leroy Brown, “you don’t spit in the wind”
Or farting in the wind....😊
Shoot the breeze is actually the polite church folk version. It's more common to hear shoot the sh*t. It's just having an impromptu conversation about nothing in particular.
Shoot the shit?! Hahahaha that's great
I was coming here to say this lol
@@scottsmith9936 me too!
I'm American and even i didn't know that
Yes! "Just shooting the shit" is a whole lot more common (in my area at least) than "Shooting the breeze". The second one sounds like something my grandmother would say.
1. So shoot the breeze is much more friendly than you described. It's less about pointless chatter and more about relaxing small talk. It's when you have a conversation with someone (more often than not a friend) and you just talk about whatever comes to mind. The phrase is sort of centered around the idea that you're shooting into the wind - i.e. firing off thoughts and ideas without a specific target (of conversation). Used in a sentence, "I bumped into my old buddy John last weekend. We just sat around shooting the breeze for almost 2 hours. It was great to catch up with him."
2. Monday morning Quarterback: So you're not the actual person who played in the game. The real person who experienced the game would have played on Sunday and have had to make difficult choices in real time. So you're the person who has brilliant suggestions (sarcasm) for "how I would have done it". Which is fairly easy to do if you didn't have to actually do the real work. Used in a sentence, "Listen to Charlie over there - perfect Monday Morning Quarterback - he has the answers for how everything would be better if he was in charge".
3. For the birds - pretty spot on in the written description you used. Something so useless that it could be fed to birds such as pigeons (or their ilk). Think of things such as stale bread. Used in a sentence, "Bob was over there speaking but I don't know what he was saying, whatever it was, it was for the birds". (this phrase isn't very common nowadays)
4. "Put up your dukes". This is pretty straightforward. It's a *very* old phrase and no one is going to challenge you to a fight on the street by saying it. That being said, you might tease someone like a young child by "challenging them". Used in a sentence: "Oh you want to fight me? Well then put up your dukes!" (think dad to son/daughter). Not common but not unheard of at least in the Northeast of the US.
5. "Behind the 8 ball". Have you not ever played billiards? It means a super difficult task (such as having your queue stuck behind an 8 ball when your next target isn't the 8). Used in a sentence, "Damn, I'm behind the 8 ball on this project. I'm screwed for time".
6. "Table and an item" - Standard and popular business phrase. You're putting down (and thus not actively holding it). Used in a sentence, "I'm sure we could talk about that project for hours but it isn't due to start until 4th quarter. Let's table it for now".
7. "Plead the fifth"... Sigh...Brits...must I throw Wiki at you? ;)
"The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and, among other things, protects individuals from being compelled to be witnesses against themselves in criminal cases. "Pleading the Fifth" is thus a colloquial term for invoking the right that allows witnesses to decline to answer questions where the answers might incriminate them, and generally without having to suffer a penalty for asserting the right. This evidentiary privilege ensures that defendants cannot be compelled to become witnesses at their own trials."
In colloquial terms - you actually got this one right! If someone asks you for gossip and you might be involved in said gossip, you would hear, "NOOooooo I'm not answering anything about what happened at Jen's party. I plead the fifth!"
5 of these are very common terms (again, at least in Boston) with 2 being generally understood but pretty uncommon in everyday use. Cute video - your American accents are just...bizarre ;) but at least harmless.
Minor clarification of you list:
I think "for the birds" refers to inedible food (like stale bread) that is now worthless except for feeding to the birds.
British people play snooker: Snooker doesn't involve numbered balls. You have to sink a white ball and then a colored ball and then a white ball, etc. So, British people don't have a clue about "the eight ball".
You are absolutely correct about "put up your dukes" being antiquated. There is a funny scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy first encounters the Cowardly Lion. The Lion challenges everyone to "put up your dukes". This suggests that the phrase was already dated when the movie was made in 1939.
I can see that about “for the birds” and that would make sense.
I’ve played Snooker (there are a few tables in the bigger billiard halls around here) but they’re always next to billiard tables. I swear I’ve played billiards against a few Britts in my lifetime... but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s highly uncommon.
Thanks!
The phrase "it's for the birds" did originate from giving food to birds but over time it turned into meaning something that is useless to you, i.e. stale bread would be useless to you. So if someone gave you something you don't need/can't use, you would say "it's for the birds". I mostly hear ppl say this when someone is giving them unimportant information or telling them something they don't care about.
Brian Kelly: Table an item actually comes from Robert's Rules of Order. It means to set aside an item on the agenda for a later time.
Brian Kelly I
Very interesting video. A subtle point about the last expression: The 5th protects against self-incrimination - it protects someone from bring required to answer a question on grounds that they will incriminate themselves. If you are a witness in a criminal trial or hearing and are asked about someone else, taking the 5th would not apply. If you were a witness in a court proceeding rather than the defendant, you would be expected to answer questions. Someone has the option to take the 5th when they are the one on trial or under questioning by the government. In everyday life the expression means that you decline to answer a question to avoid getting into trouble (not necessarily legal trouble). The first 10 amendments to the Constitution, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, are not rights the government gave us. They are rights the government can never take from us.
It's used in court, and especially in congressional hearings (that's mostly what you'll see on TV since most trials aren't broadcast) but people also use it in common conversation. "Who took the last donut?"
"I plead the 5th."
If subpoenaed by a court or other government body (like a congressional hearing) you must appear and be subjected to questioning, but you can then just repeatedly say "On the advice of my attorneys I invoke my 5th ammendment right not to testify."
In criminal trials, refusing make any statements or not testifying cannot be used against you. The jury can't infer guilt due to your silence. (If he were innocent and had nothing to hide, he'd tale the stand.) In civil cases I believe they CAN draw inferences, but I'm not sure
but used in everday language it means refusing to admit your guilt. "did you eat that last cupcake?" i plead the fifth. meaning YEP. but i'll never admit it.
Excellent explanation
Pleading the fifth is not self incriminating oneself. But it’s also not an admission of guilt either. Our first TEN rights listed in our CONSTITUTION are known as the BILL OF RIGHTS. These rights are told to the government that these are rights that limit the government. These RIGHTS ARE GIVEN TO US BY OUR CREATOR. Our Constitution limits the government thanks to how King George treated his subjects in the colonies. Please read the American Constitution it will shed light on all your questions about my Country. My ancestors fought against the crown right along side of General Washington. We Americans are Citizens and not Subjects like you Brits.
Thanks for explaining. I was literally thinking what is ‘the 5th? Or 5th amendment (apologies for my ignorance) a now enlightened Brit 😊
Example of "shootin the breeze":
Person: Sorry, am I interrupting?
Second Person: No, Paul and I were just shootin the breeze.
Shoot the breeze to relax
It’s just casual conversation, without any particular agenda.
"shoot the breeze" means engage in small talk. No serious communication. Just passing the time verbally.
Mike Dannheim ohhh. I’m American and didn’t even know what that was xd
Also called " shooting the sh#t!
One could also say talking alot about nothing
I slightly disagree...to me its just chilling doing nothing important. Talking is not a requirement of shooting the breeze
Dum
plead the fifth" I refuse to answer the question on the grounds that I may incriminate myself"
rebecca Cobarrubias right
rebecca Cobarrubias referring to the fifth amendment of the Constitution.
One had the correct answer written down. You really think they didn't know what the 5th amendment was when they filmed this?
Shoot the breeze= A chin wag.
Pleading the 5th an actual legal term but used often in everyday life. For example, “did you eat my sandwich?” I actually did but don’t want to admit yet don’t want to lie so I say “I plead the 5th”. It’s actually a silly way of admitting I did It without actually saying so. Sort of tongue in cheek
One of my favorite southern American phrases is “Dont piss down my back and tell me it’s raining”.
It’s similar to pulling the wool over your eyes.
Don’t try to fool me I wasn’t born yesterday
Wow
I've always heard that as "Don't piss on my leg and tell me that it's raining" . Same meaning, different body part getting wet.
I was born at night, but not last night
Sure Judge Judy said that.
Monday morning quarterback = someone who is an expert AFTER the fact. Criticizing something after it fails.
Hind sight is always 20/20.
I have never heard that expression.
Rob and Theresa Decker Yes. It could or could not have anything to do with football.
@@eliseorlando123 but looking back it's still a bit fuzzy
Hmm, I'm American and also have never heard anyone say this.
As an American and from the South i live in in Alabama pissing in tbe wind is a very very common saying here ive heard it all my life
lord Samiam SWEET HOME ALABAMA
Just imagine what happens if you actually piss into the wind. It blows back onto you. The phrase means doing something in such a way that it comes back on you in an unpleasant way.
Exactly we say it on a daily
jbeargrr, what if it's tailwind?
@@jailynhernanez369 Tbh its kind of a goal to get the wind to blow it on your friends or family
A quarterback basically runs the team on field in American football. The most important games (like the SuperBowl) are held on Sundays; thus a "Monday morning quarterback" is someone who's saying how the game should have been played a day after it's over. It's similar to the idea of "hindsight's 20/20," that it's easy to have all the answers after it's all over.
To me, "shooting the breeze" has the implication of a nice relaxed chat with a good friend. And yes, not talking about anything too serious or important. By the way, I love your channel, love the UK, and love talking to British people.
Monday morning quarterback is usually used to describe someone who wasn't present in a situation but thinks they could have done it better or the "right way".
This is it exactly!
Your comment is correct. The point being that it's easy to break things down detail by detail because you have time to do so, and you already know the outcome. Someone has make a quick decision in the moment, and then others can be critical at their leisure.
Another version of this is “armchair quarterback.” Like you all have said, it’s someone who smugly thinks that he himself could have done something better, ignoring the fact that he has had the time and hindsight to make a different decision (for example). But “Monday morning quarterback” can also include the person himself being self-critical, after the fact, and after having had time to analyze a situation.
it's a "back seat driver", only after the fact
It's a back-handed way of describing someone who has all the benefit of hindsight when judging a situation or other people's decision. American football is generally played on a Sunday. The quarterback is the guy on the offense yelling instructions to his team. If he's doing this on a Monday morning, he's looking at the situation and/or telling people what they should have done differently after the fact, while knowing the outcome.
Where did you find these? I didn't know half of these lol.
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pennie gwin I know right!! Lolol
If you haven't heard these phrases I suspect you are somewhat young. I have heard everyone but some I haven't heard for years.
Others are used under very limited times, such as table an item. You would never hear that unless you worked in a occupation that required negotiating.
pennie gwin I'm not young, and I've heard a few of these but some are just rather old or we typically just do not use. I like their videos but I kinda feel like anything "American" related, they should ask an actual American or like have Americans in their videos.
A Monday morning quarterback is someone who has all the answers after the game is over
Essentially the same as saying "hindsight is 20/20".
Yes, with the added little twist that it implies that they're being a bit of a know it all - like "it's so obvious that such and such was the right choice" ...well, easy enough to say now that you know how it turned out!
A Landreau oo
Kinda related to an armchair quarterback or backseat driver. Somebody who has all the answers but aren't dealing with the stress and time limits of making the decision in the moment
Instead of tabling it. We would say “let’s put a pin in that and come back to it later.”
Great song if you haven’t seen it
I agree with you, Lindsay. "Put a pin in it" is a much more common way to say that these days. However, it is a comparatively new expression, whereas "table it" has been around for a long time, but has fallen out of favor (favour, for the Brits reading this ;-).
Put it on the back burner.
1. "Shooting the breeze" is casual, meaningless conversation (i.e. 2 friends talking about nothing of importance). 2. "A Monday morning quarterback" is someone who talks about a situation as if they would have known exactly what to do (but only with the benefit of hindsight, as the game was played on Sunday). In use, it's typically to refer to someone else, "John said he would have gotten the deal that Jim lost, but he's just being a Monday morning quarterback." . 3. "For the birds" is something crazy or trivial that can be disregarded. "Sandra's got a money-making scheme, but it's for the birds.". 4. "Put up your dukes" is an old one not used much anymore, except in jest. It means to put your hands (dukes) up, and prepare to fight. 5. "Behind the eight ball" is from the game of pool. It's to be in a difficult situation. 6. "Table an item" is usually used in business situations. It is to discuss something at a later time (I like your version better). 7. "Plead the 5th" is the 5th Amendment. In court, the 5th Amendment means you can't be forced to incriminate yourself. It only applies to testifying against yourself.
To be fair, not all Americans would have known some of these either, and you got some of them right, so kudos!
Excellent descriptions Madness by design! If you are an American and over the age of 30 more than likely you would not have heard these statements. They are not used by people in their 20s or younger or understood by them.
Madness by Design ... actually, there is a subtle difference regarding "Table an item"...
..."Table an item" is as you have said, to discuss something later...
... However, if you were to say "on the table" that would mean the subject is up for immediate discussion...
Miklos Ernoehazy, Yes, although "On the table" usually refers to bargaining (an offer is "on the table"). It's interesting that the English use both terms to describe discussing something, where we in the US use "Table an item" to set aside the discussion for later.
Black balled
Ahhw E-Any ... not to be confused with the British pocket billiards game...
American here and I know "pissing in the wind"
Jim Croce - only he sang spit in the wind, I figured it meant if you do it, it's going right back on you.
Same
"Pissing in the wind" and "for the birds".... basically the same thing
We say it down south all the time
@@okiedokie123100 , no pissing in the wind is a waste of time. For the birds means it's worthless.
Is any one else American who has never heard these phrases?
Which ones hadn't you heard before?
I’ve only heard 3 of them
You’ve never heard of “I plead the fifth?” That’s actually kind of hard to believe.
wow thats kind of sad even shoot the breeze like plead the 5th or put up your dukes, apparently Hannah M if your reading this I mean no disrespect but 300 to 400 million people in america and I'm american as well I'm sure around 80% of america has heard these its like saying someone beaten half to death sounds pretty violent maybe but the joke is in the phrase if you didnt catch it in the video its called a sense of humor, beating someone half to death well thats fine because they will survive unless you give them an identicalo beating immediately after so they were literally beaten half to death twice which equals death sounds morbid but if you don't get it you should get out more, after all put up your duke for people out there I believe was a comedy line way back when and it caught on and has been around forever.... however the term lets "shoot the breeze" or in less pg rated terms shoot the shit if taken literally why would you do such a thing who goes around shoot at shit or a breeze and calls it relaxing so people these two in this video are not making fun of america there just curious like example a phrase like a whole nother or every now and again or half expect or when someone says something is on a whole new level, or how about something we hear alot like someone saying I got a shit ton of something or how about that shit, its almost as stupid sound as someone saying lemme aks you and yes I mispelled that on purpose, the term this is the shit yet its a compliment yet its at times good food being compared to feces with a positive outlook like damn this steak is the shit, or far out man, or when people saying they will pray for you at unnesesary occasions
Brian Gosik yeah. yeah no disrespect amirite
I’ve always taken the phrase “Monday morning quarterbacking” as somebody who positions themselves as having all the answers. “If only they did this or that” - offering up strategies and actions that should’ve been taken, but not acknowledging that their insights are informed by the benefit of hindsight.
The U.S. definitely uses “Pissing in the wind” lol
Yes we do... like getting no where fast ;)
@@Nemhain1117 Are you by any chance referencing Incubus? O3o
Incubus has a song when I found out that they used "piss in the wind" I didn't know if they were British or American so I looked it up and they were American so thank you for confirming that we use it, too.
u.s. uses pissing against the wind not pissing in the wind. piss against the wind doesn't help it just gets you wet. piss in the wind? never heard it
longnamenocansayy, nah! I would definitely say “pissing in the wind,” and not “pissing against the wind,” as an American.
Shoot the breeze can also mean relaxing with someone and talking about anything.
Yeah, like, hanging out and doing nothing in particular.
Wil H yes
Yeah just relaxing and talking about nothing really important just catching up
This. "Hey, let's hang out and shoot the breeze for a while." Meaning, just chat about whatever comes to mind.
I've heard this mostly in this sentence "sitting on the poarch shooting the breeze". Given my county cousins they are likely armed wait for some unluck squirrel to pass by.
Plead the fifth: to not say something self-incriminating.
Exactly. It has to do with refusing to answer a question in a court of law because a truthful answer would make one look outright guilty or guilty by association.
The right to remain silent.
@@rockabye274 I think it's more used by people who committed an act but when on the witness stand has a right to "plead the 5th" (self incrimination). Used instead of denying guilt and committing perjury. Totally legal and not committing perjury (a crime in itself). If the court finds them guilty then they can't throw in a perjury charge.
It’s much easier to understand if you say the entire 5th amendment phrasing: “I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me. “
In the 5th amendment to the constitution no one can be forced to testify against themselves. In an everyday situation it’s become something of a non-admission of guilt. For example if someone says, “Did you eat that last piece of cake I was saving for myself?” And another person says “Um, I plead the Fifth”, it’s a funny way of acknowledging that you did without outright saying yes.
As an American you would say: "You wanna grab some coffee and shoot the breeze?"
As an American, I haven't heard most of these and I'm a teenager, I think it depends on where you are in America and how old you are
Kacie Morgan It's ok, teens these days are illiterate; )
I have heard all of these & I live in Ecuador.
Stop the Philosophical Zombies it’s not our fault you guys are to lazy to teach it to us
@@rilke1791 You have a point.
I’m 36 and most of these aren’t commonly used. Most of these are expressions used by baby boomers and older. Some of them conjured images of the Great Depression for me. Lol.
Plead the fifth .... if a group of men are at work and they’re “shooting the breeze “ one asks “ have you ever dropped acid?” The other man says “I plead the fifth” .
He basically saying that he’s not answering the question in affirmative nor in negative.
It does in fact refer to the fifth amendment of the US bill of rights which protects people from self incrimination.
American freedom Logistics You deserve more credit for this clever reply!
Also, it usually implies guilt, but allows for ambuguity. It's like a playful way of admitting guilt without actually confessing.
I agree with this, but I'd also like to add that when the man says "I plead the fifth" in response to the question he's implying that he HAS done acid and simply isn't going to verbally affirm it. Because "pleading the fifth" has such a strong connection to Law and crime the unspoken context is that you DID do something, but aren't going to confim that you have and incriminate yourself.
Americans, with our Constitution to protect our rights, tend to exercise our rights even when we don't NEED to exercise them. For example, pleading the fifth does not necessarily imply that we are guilty. The 5th amendment right not to testify against one self is a natural right AFFIRMED by our constitution not granted by it. (same for the rest of the Bill of Rights). Our existence does not compel us to testify against ourselves, regardless of guilt. Of course the 5th amendment in our bill of rights CAN BE used in the way described, one cannot be convicted based on lack of testimony again oneself. Therefore, pleading the fifth in casual conversation is usually tongue-in-cheek meaning "of course I did it". Not so in legal proceedings.
"Put up you're dukes let's get down to it. Hit me with you're best shot!"
Love Pat Benatar
To all the fellow Americans who have never heard of any of these phrases I say bless your heart.
justanotherwhitegirl a lol southern for you are stupid
Lmao
Lol
The most passive aggressive of southern insults 😂
Yep
"I plead the fifth"
Literally, "I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate me."
If someone accuses you of a crime, they must provide the proof. The court system cannot force you to confess or otherwise give answers that might substantiate your guilt.
Obviously, in normal conversation, the meaning becomes, "I'm not gonna answer that because then I'll get in trouble/you'll be mad at me."
Fifth Amendment is about SELF incrimination. You don't have to testify if doing so implicates yourself in a crime. So if I'm trespassing illegally and see a crime and the police want me to testify, but I can't explain how I saw it without admitting I was somewhere I was not allowed to be myself, I could plead the fifth to avoid testifying to that issue. So when people "plead the fifth," it means they can't really answer the question without making themselves look guilty or bad in some way. Of course, most people, colloquially, take pleading the fifth to mean you are guilty of something.
exactly! But I love how they don't know & how it makes so much sense to them the way they said it lol & in my head I'm like NOOOOO
One clarification that even Americans need is that there is no "pleading". You "invoke" your fifth amendment rights, but there's no pleading about it.
Hair splitting. Legally, plead is a synonym for invoke or assert. Not that it matters as this is about the common, colloquial saying, which is to "plead the fifth."
They also can take the fifth so that their words can’t be twisted. It’s just a barrier of protection from the government. Let’s say you say I saw them do it. Then the prosecutor says oh so you know then, you say no but st this point you’ve spoken about them so much you kinda know them. They can say well you know who to pick out. Trying to defend yourself against open questioning taking the fifth can be the way to go. Only give details to your lawyer. They know legalese better. They can give your statements.
A LOT is included in the 5th Amendment. Grand Juries, Double-Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process, Property Seizure. Here's the full text:
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
When you invoke your 5th Amendment Rights (aka "Plead the 5th"), you invoke the phrase: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". That is, even if you're guilty of a crime, you cannot be forced to say "I did it". Also, if you tell your lawyer (BritSpeak: Barrister) that you actually DID the crime, he/she also cannot tell the court that you did it. To do so would be to break Attorney-Client Privilege. The only exception to Attorney-Client Privilege is if your lawyer actually abetted you in committing the crime. (see what's going on now in the case of Michael Cohen, Trump's attorney -- they cannot plead Attorney-Client Privilege, because Cohen abetted Trump in his dealings with Stormy Daniels)
I know -- from watching TONS of British courtroom dramas -- that British law works VERY differently than this. If you tell your Barrister you're guilty, he/she is duty bound to tell the court, report that you're guilty, and you're done. Carted off to jail. It was against this history of British Common Law that the drafters of the U.S. Constitution wanted to guard against.
"FOR THE BIRDS" basically means something was dreadful.
"How was your day?"
"It was for the birds."
Yes. I was kind of trying to tell them this as they were trying to understand it. But Joel and Lia couldn’t hear me through the TH-cam. Ah well. 😂 The explanation on the video is not really how people use it. It basically means a situation sucks.
"Plead the Fifth" is most definitely an American expression because it's based on the constitution. The Fifth amendment allows you to prevent testifying against or incriminating yourself in whatever you're being accused of. The text says "... nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..."
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Once I was asked by an American 'Tell me all about your hood' I had no idea that he was inquiring about my neighbourhood. My reply was, "well it is attached to my jacket and it prevents my hair from getting wet when it rains"
My reaction would've been the same.
Stephen Bradley , love this! I have often done the same😁
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That's funny. I am American and "hood" is African American slang Now more mainstream. As an older American when I first heard it I thought they were talking about the hood of their car or to Brits the bonnet.
That's because of the misspelling 'hood, indicating the omission of (neighbor)hood.
"Monday morning quarterback" is not only criticizing someone after the fact, but also the person doing the criticizing is not an expert in the field he's criticizing. The term "armchair quarterback" is similar.
Thanks!
I'm from a Region in the US where we use Shootin' the Shit. Not shooting the Breeze.
probably the same region that eats boiled peanuts
I'm 52 and I think "Shootin' the shit" is just a late 20th century adapation of "shootin' the breeze." I.e., it's more of a generational shift than a regional difference insofar as words that were more restricted in their use due to stricter cultural norms have gradually become more accepted. If you ask old-timers from your region I bet they rememeber that there was a time that "Shoot the breeze" was in use (and perhaps for them still is).
Along th same vein, In my youth, 45rpm vinyl "records" (aka "singles"), and/or the versions played on the radio of popular songs used to censor certain words that were in the LP version. One case in point, among many: "Jet Airliner" by the Steve Miller Band (first band I saw live back around '78 at Crisler Arena in ANN ARBOR, MI) changed the verse "Funky SHIT goin' down in the city" to "Funky KICKS going down in the city" for their single release/radio play.
WTF are boiled Peanuts?
@@williamhunt2625 I love Steve Miller band!
exactly what they sound like. peanuts boiled while in their shells. they are very big in alabama, they are even found in cans... i consider them to be on the same level as vienna sausage, sardines, and spam.
"Shoot the breeze" LOL. I don't think I've heard that phrase in about 20 years. When I hear it, I think of two old men sitting on a porch in rocking chairs talking about the weather. Younger people do say "shoot the shit" a lot. When I say it, I'm referring to getting together and hanging out casually. "Man, it's been a minute since we shot the shit. Lets go get a drink sometime soon.)
"Pissing into the wind" was a common phrase when I grew up in Connecticut in the 80's and 90's. I might use it in reference to a stupid and futile effort with potentially bad consequences. I think the more modern version is "pissing upstream" or "pissing on a wall". "Bud, you're pissing into the wind trying to lift that rock." Again, it's kind of an outdated phrase.
"Monday Morning Quarterback" is someone who has all the right answers to something that's gone wrong, because they've already seen the outcome. Sunday is a big day for American Football, so when someone is being a monday morning quarterback, they're arguing that their favorite losing team should have done this and that the day after the game ended, or for any other failed endeavor. It's simply a strange way to say that "hindsight is always 20/20".
"For the birds" Lia's first instinct is totally right. I would say that phrase if something is useless or stupid to me. For example, those life hack videos are for the birds. My guess is the phrase originated in the city where it's pretty common to get up off a park bench after a snack or lunch, shake off food crumbs or a little scrap of bread, and see a bunch of pigeons gather to try and get a bite.
"Put up your dukes" likely comes from the American slang of "duking it out" which means fighting. That's another old timey phrase that makes me think of the 1950's.
"Behind the 8 ball" is a reference to a pool (billiards) game. The game ends when either opponent sinks all 7 of their balls (striped/solid in the US or red/yellow in the UK) and then finally the all black 8 ball to win the game, or if the 8 ball is accidentally knocked into a pocket, at which point the offending player automatically loses. If the all white cue ball (the only ball you can hit with the cue) winds up resting behind the 8 ball to line up your next shot, you have very limited options to sink a shot and thus give up your turn. Your turn ends when you miss a shot, thus the phrase "cleared the table" or "ran the table" when someone does something so well that their opponent never had a chance.
"Tabling" an item comes from the business world, meaning that the problem can't be solved at the moment or in a timely manner, and it's time to move on to easier or more pressing issues until there's time to readdress the problem. I use this phrase often. I might say that I'm going to table fixing the lawnmover until after I repair a leak in the roof, because the lawnmower is a time consuming task that holds less precedent than a damp house, or that I'm having trouble with a project and I table it in order to complete other tasks that need to be done. I'm putting the project back on the table until I have time to get back to it. The British version also makes perfect sense to me.
"Plead the fifth" is something you would only know if you live in America or are familiar with our constitutional amendments and criminal law. The 5th amendment to the US constitution declares that a person cannot be forced to be a witness against themselves in a criminal case, say anything that would incriminate themselves, and that they have the legal right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions regarding an inquest against themselves. In everyday American culture, it's a suggestive admission of guilt without confirming any facts. It's not a very common phrase to hear, and is usually used as wry humor by normal Americans when an uncomfortable question is asked and we'd rather not declare something outright, but admit to it indirectly. "did you sleep with that girl you met last night?" "I plead the fifth." "Ohhhhhhhhh!!!!!" It's kind of anachronistic nowadays.
Come to the south you'll hear it all plus about a 1000 more that tie in. My favorite is "Knee high to a grasshopper"
M Ouija, very well put. Thank you!
I’ve never heard, „Monday morning quarterback.“
Or behind the 8 ball.
And it’s kinda odd to me on the constitutional rights, because we actually took our first 10 from the Brits bill of rights hahaha.
The expression "it's for the birds" didn't start as American slang, it came from Victorian London. It was a polite way of saying "Horse Shit", because birds would often be seen eating seeds out of said "Horse Shit", hence, It's for the birds. Horse shit. Which covers useless, worthless, ect. It was coined in the same part of London as "falling off the wagon", wherein convicts who were on the way to their executions past a famous pub (forget its name, still around today tho) would "fall off the wagon" into the pub. I'm an American but I love our language, please upvote so they can see this.
I love hearing the origination of words or phrases!!!!
Angela Hartley this is true
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Ironically, "Put up your dukes" comes from Cockney rhyming slang, where dukes is short for duke of Yorks, which was a rhyme for forks, meaning hands. So it was originally a British phrase
It’s a challenge to a fight
i’ve actually always said ‘shooting the shit’ not breeze
same lol i was like shooting the breeze wtf does that mean
Same thing, just one is family friendly.
Shoot the breeze is older and young people don't know it because they don't read any more.
that's an alternative I have not heard in a while, but yeah
"Chewing the fat," is another expression.
I plead the fifth! Means I have a Right to remain SILENT! If it self incriminates. You have a right not to testify against yourself.
@@skunkcabbages5040 The right to counsel is the 6th amendment. The 5th says that even if you have a lawyer and are sitting in the courtroom at your trial, you can't be made to talk. This is a protection against forced confessions, which historically have been extracted by coercion or even torture. So you have a right to just sit there and make the police prove their case.
Ruby is correct. The fifth means we have the right not in incrimante Ourselves only.
Whatever right you try to exercise with the police, they'll make you pay for it
That’s part of it. The self incrimination is most of it but I was always assuming this was made for times of war, as not to be forced into testifying for a side not befitting your personal cause. But I would agree that it’s used to force the accusers to prove their accusation. I was almost positive this is also the amendment including double jeopardy, and also never being incriminated without due process of law?
@@kevinbahr8561 No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
This was a great video, please do a part two😂😂😂 I got some more American phrases for you:
1. Take a raincheck
2. Spill the beans
3. Ride shotgun
4. Cat got your tongue
5. Couch potato
6. Hold your horses
7. Giving someone the cold shoulder
8. Bury the hatchet
9. Do something cold turkey
10. Diddly squat
11. Piece of cake
12. He's going to pop the question
13. Under the weather
14. Put the cart before the horse
15. You do the math
Here's some more American phrases for you😎
1. Grab some grub,
2. From the wood works,
3. Heard from the grapevine
4. He's from the sticks,
5. Not in my book
6. Count sheep
7. Sold me a lemon
8. Taking candy from a baby
9. Cat out of the bag
10. Play second fiddle
11. From the other side of the tracks
12. Not on my watch
Leah James I imagine at least half of these span wider than just the United States.
I wish I could upvote this or something, lol. Some of these would be great!
Scott Noll I suppose they do. But I'm sure many don't know the meaning of them lol.
he'll yeah good list
1 and 3 are good. The rest I think are pretty much universal
"Shooting the breeze" is talking about unimportant things. Kind of going off the idea that someone saying trivial things is really just expelling so much air from their mouths, i.e. being a windbag.
"Monday Morning Quarterbacking" is also known as "armchair quarterbacking". Second-guessing what someone else has done specifically by saying you'd do it better, often in great detail. It's pretty derisive, basically describing Joe Shmoe with a beer gut who last threw a pass in his freshman year of high school saying he'd call better plays than the professional quarterback of whatever team played on Sunday when he's hanging around the water cooler on Monday.
When someone says something is "for the birds" they dislike it and consider it trivial, basically like stale bread crumbs, i.e. something you'd throw to birds.
"Put up your dukes" is definitely put up your fists and get ready to fight. This one is pretty archaic, actually, and more than likely comes from your side of the Pond originally, i.e. from rhyming slang. "Forks" was used as slang for fists, and the phrase "dukes of York" was created as rhyming slang for "forks" and eventually was shortened to just "dukes." You're more likely to hear it in movies set in the 40s or before than in current conversation.
If you're "behind the 8 ball" you're basically screwed unless you can pull off a really good trick. It is a pool term. You hit the white cue ball with your cue or stick to knock it into the other balls and knock those other balls into the holes at the edges and corners of the table. In the most-often played version of pool, one person hits the solid-colored balls (numbered 1-7) and the other hits the striped balls (numbered 9-15), and you have to get your entire set into the holes before hitting the black ball (numbered 8) into the hole to win the game. If you sink the 8 ball before you get all of your other balls, you lose. So if the cue ball is behind the 8 ball and you still have other balls to get into the holes, you may have to do some tricky shooting to get out from behind the 8 ball to sink the other balls.
If you "table an item" you cease discussing it for the moment and come back to it later. It's mainly used in meetings that use Robert's Rules of Order for parliamentary procedure.
The third clause of the fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution (you got it right with the Bill of Rights, which are the first 10 amendments) guarantees against self-incrimination. Properly, it's a guarantee that you can't be made to confess to a crime while on the witness stand, and if you are on the witness stand, you're usually saying "I invoke my Fifth Amendment rights" or even more formally "On advice of counsel, I am invoking my Fifth Amendment privileges against self-incrimination." Just saying "I plead the Fifth" is an informal way of technically admitting guilt without actually doing so. "I saw on Instagram you were out with your girls at the club. You said you were at your grandma's so you couldn't come to my recital!" "I plead the Fifth."
In addition to "put up your dukes," people will "duke it out," which means to have a fight. Not just any fight, though. It's more reserved for a serious physical fight, like a fist fight.
Jen Blevins-Postgate Or it can even be used to refer to a very heated verbal argument.
Ahhhh, so "Dukes" comes from John Wayne! I shoulda known but it was a little bit before my time.
You could say, "I thought they were going to Duke it out!"
brian sky, that phrase is far older than John Wayne. It definitely does not refer to him. Ironically, it has its origin in Cockney rhyming slang, so actually originated in England.
Ahh, so true. When they said, "Put up your dukes," I had no idea what that meant. I have, however, heard people use the phrase "duke it out," quite often.
A quarterback is basically the team leader in the US football. He calls most of the plays the team will run. Most college games are on Saturday and pro games on Sunday. So on Monday morning, with the benefit of hindsight, people who didn't have to actually play in the game will claim that they would have called different plays to get superior results to what really happened. So you can Monday morning quarterback any decision after the fact--a business decision, a sports call, a political policy, etc--with the benefit of total hindsight, and with no real skin in the game or anything on the line yourself (making second guessing both easy and pointless).
Now, let's see if they understand the phrase "skin in the game"! Doubtful.
@NekoMouser: Your explanation is pretty much correct. One nuance is that the "Monday morning quarterback" is also someone who has probably never played organized football or at least not past the age of 12. Yet they speak as if they are some sort of expert.
However we Americans most often use the phrase metaphorically and pejoritively. It refers to someone who second guesses an espert's, politician's, .managee's, etc., decision, although they have never really been in that person's position and has never had to make such a decision.
All these phrases are regional. The U.S.A. is so large that we don’t all use the same phrases.
Yeah, in Michigan, if we table an item it means put it up for discussion.
Come to Chicago where we leave out parts of sentence structure because it’s normal here.
Where I'm from we just say it like it is. We really don't use any phrases.
biff322 well I've never heard anyone say to "table" something. Only to "put it on the table."
so true. Our country is lowkey so massive.
The 5th Amendment to the US Constitution is the protection against self-incrimination. So when someone invokes the 5th (or pleads the 5th) it is because they feel they could incriminate themselves.
You were close: the 5th amendment says that a person is not required to incriminate him/herself. To pleading the fifth or taking the fifth, means refusing to speak on the grounds that whatever you say could be used to incriminate you.
Plead the 5th: constitutionally not required to testify because it might incriminate yourself. Not incriminate someone else
adp well explained
Monday Morning Quarterback is more related to 20/20 hindsight - the ability to analyze something that has already happened.
And it's specifically "Monday morning" as NFL football games typically happen Sunday afternoon/night.
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except the ones that happen thursday, saturday, sunday morning, or monday night
"except the ones that happen thursday, saturday, sunday morning, or monday night"
I think going back Sunday games for the NFL were the norm, and then later, in the 1970s or so, Monday night football came in. Later came Thursday games.
Looking up the term on the web, it dates back to 1940 to 1945.... so it's been around for a while.
Listening to this podcast made me want to put up my dukes because I felt I was behind the 8 ball. If any action takes place, I'll just plead the 5th. I don't want to Monday morning quarterback this so let's shoot the breeze when you have a chance. For now, let's table this as most people will think this is for the birds.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Very good! 🤣
when you plead the fifth amendment you have the right not to talk about something that might cause you to incriminate yourself.
Pleading the 5th refers to the 5th amendment to the United States Constitution, one of many Amendments that make up the "Bill of Rights."
After the colonies won independence and formed the United States, they wrote the Constitution, which is the fundamental and supreme law of the nation. But the Constitution only enumerated and divided the powers of the government, but did not restrict the government or guarantee any individual rights to the people.
So shortly after the Constitution was ratified, it had a number of Amendments which all guaranteed individual rights or limited the government. You Brits may have heard of the 2nd Amendment. That's the fundamental law that guarantees that Americans can own weapons such as firearms.
Well the 5th Amendment does numerous things, but one thing it does is ensures that you cannot be forced to testify or give evidence against yourself in any criminal matter, or any matter in which you believe you could be accused or charged of a crime. In practical terms this means that you can never be forced to speak to any officer of the court (police, lawyer, judge, etc). You can still be arrested, charged, or convicted, but the state cannot compel you to testify or give any statement.
Equal to " I'm not telling you sh*t" in friend and family circles. Most often used towards parental units so they don't wash your mouth with soap.
Woooooo history!
Yeah, it insures you can't get punished for keeping your mouth shut.
You are a very good writer sir. What is your point?
Also known and Miranda rights
Pleading the 5th is used to not incriminate yourself. Not someone else. You don't have to testify if what you'll say will basically be an admission of guilt.
Right. The essential idea is that a person can't be compelled to testify against themselves.
Plead the fif
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In fact, if you are a witness in ANOTHER person’s trial, or in the investigation leading to a trial, you can “take the Fifth” if your answer would incriminate you for ANY crime, even a totally unrelated one.
Pleading the fifth refers to he 5th amendment of the US Constitution. Which guarantees that you cannot be forced to incriminate yourself.I f I am breaking into a house and see another crime happening, I cannot be forced to testify about the crime I witnessed if that testimony would include admitting I was breaking into the house. Thus incriminating myself of the crime of burglary. Pleading the fifth can also mean, I'm not going to discuss this when used in normal conversation. Hope that helps
You also cannot be compelled to testify against your spouse
a Monday morning quarterback means you’re second guessing what happened on Sunday it makes perfect sense you’re second guessing things after the fact and it’s usually somebody who never actually played football
"Behind the 8 ball" - In pool, hitting the 8 ball into a pocket before you've cleared all of your other balls off the table results in immediate loss of the game. Additionally, striking the 8 ball without sinking it is a foul as is failing to strike any other ball. Hence, if the cue ball is behind the 8 ball, you are in a situation where there are not many likely scenarios with a good outcome.
Well said! Spot on!
Behind the 8 ball. When you play table-pool, the 8 ball HAS to be hit last. If your cue ball lands in a position where the 8 ball is in the way of you shot, then you will have to bounce the cue off of a wall inti a different ball just to avoid hitting the 8 ball. So yeah a very difficult situtaion
cooldes4593 in English terms, “snookered”
Yeah, no matter how you slice it, the 8 ball is going to get hit. So if you’re behind it, then, well, you’re doomed.
Never heard of this one
cooldes4593 : this explanation is not correct.
Kirk Ryan how is it incorrect?
Shooting the breeze is basically hanging, not doing much of anything.
this must be the easiest of all pleading the 5th is also easy put up your duke or duking it out
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Truly two countries divided by a common language.
Plead the 5th is not to incriminate yourself. They can't force you to incriminate yourself in a court of law.
As an American I have literally never heard "Monday morning quarterback" before
Hacimthedream1 same here.
The phrase is directly related to "Sunday Night Football" and generally describes someone who brags they would not have made the bad decision that resulted in a loss. It was more common twenty years ago.
Very popular phrase...now you'll hear it all the time.
You don't watch football, do you? You might be more familiar with "armchair quarterback"
Same
"To table something" is to put it on the back burner which means put it aside and deal with it some other time.
No, he's correct. To table an item is to postpone discussion for a later time. In American English, anyway.
Tsunami1972 it's a a difference in parliamentary procedure. In the Westminster system, "tabling a motion" is to bring it up for debate. In Roger's Rules, it's to put the motion aside. This gets very confusing if you're not clear on what system a country works under.
If a bill is tabled in house or senate committee, it usually means quash.
Unlike simply quashing the subject being “tabled,” this is used at official proceedings (under Roberts Rules) for something for which further information or input is required. For example, at a typical US yacht club, when someone is trying to resign, they can’t until it’s been verified that they’re all paid up to date. If not, their bill keeps racking up. So, let’s say the Board doesn’t have that info; they’d “table” the motion until such time as the question is answered.
That one comes from parliamentary procedures. We stole that from you guys.
“Put up your Dukes” is pretty old timey. No one really says it anymore except as a joke”
The problem is that because the US is so big that there a lot of phrases that are particular to certain areas that other areas don’t use at all.
Even ordering food and drinks is sometimes different from state to state. Like ordering soda, soda pop, pop, cola,fountain drink, carbonated beverage, tea, sweet tea, iced tea, and hot tea.
i got a friend who drives me up the wall. she used to live on the other side of town as me. when we go to starbucks, i call it a coffee, she calls it a coffee drink. ...it drives me up the wall, we already know you plan on drinking it, it's not a coffee eat. lol ...what makes it worse? i call it a latte, she calls it a latte coffee drink. >_
Monday morning quarterback = Backseat Driver.
Someone who isnt in a position to do things, telling you how it should be done. Usually using the power of hindsight.
cooldes4593 I’m American and I’ve never heard of it. But now it makes sense, there are no quarterbacks on Monday (or their didn’t used to be) quarterbacks only played on Sunday.
Aree Oree they use monday because you watch footbal games on sunday, then at work(or school if you are younger) on monday people always talk about the games and say how a team coulsve done better. This makes them monday morning quarterbacks
cooldes4593 Makes sense although now there is Monday night football.
cooldes4593 Similar to hindsight is 20/20 where you have someone who thinks they know everything and ALWAYS gives their opinion after the fact so obviously they have the benefit of how things actually turned out.
Omg! I very much dislike backseat drivers!! Especially when its someone breathing down your neck because they're absolute control freaks who don't think anyone else can do it right.
Monday Morning Quarterback is a more specific variant of "hindsight is 20/20" but the person in question is acting haughty. US Football at the professional level is played on Sundays, so Monday morning you'll always get the person who has the "perfect" analysis that they can tell you after the fact, but couldn't have told you the same on Saturday.
Clutch Situation exactly! It isn't second guessing, it's thinking you know better.
It's the "should've done" guy. "They should've handed it off rather than pass on that third and seven in fourth quarter. If they'd run the ball they could have gotten the first down. The pass ended up going going wide so clearly running was the way to go" when there's no way the quarterback or receiver in that play could possibly have predicted that the pass would go wide. The guy that laments that the pass was poorly executed and complains "my god I can't believe he missed that pass" on Monday morning is not a Monday morning quarterback, he's a guy frustrated with a lapse in player skill. The guy who goes on about how HE would have done it, or how it" should've been done" is a Monday morning quarterback. (Unless you ARE that quarterback in that play the next day, mulling over how to better approach a similar situation next time, which is just strategy, but you're still technically a quarterback on a Monday morning so...)
I've actually never heard that in the south. we call people like that arm chair quarterbacks.
I’ve never said tabling an item. I’ve always said “shelving” it.
I always said put it on the back burner
Oddly enough, in the US we say “put it on the table” when we mean ‘talk it over’ or ‘have it out,’ but “table it” to mean ‘discuss it later.’ It’s strange semantics we have here!
That saying is "put our cards on the table."
Yes, "on the table" means something is currently up for discussion and specifically, it's an "option to consider" or it's an idea that's currently "in play"; however, while "table it" does mean to discuss later, it also implies that we DO intend to discuss it. They're not exactly opposites; in a sense they both come from the same idea of "putting something on the table for discussion" -- it's just that in the latter case we're emphasizing that we'll come back around to it later, while in the former case we're emphasizing the notion that it's available for discussion in the first place. Another way to say this is "let's put it back on the table" as in "we'll put it down and pick it up again later."
A closely related phrase is "put a pin in [something]" as in, we're going to set this aside for now, but we'll pin a note up on a bulletin board/wall to remind us to come back to it.
Nowadays, ‘Shoot the Breeze’ would more likely be said as ‘Shoot the Shit.’
Unless you see "shit" as a swear word and don't like to swear. Though that's not very common nowadays.
2:40 I feel this could have been explained better. It's more like "Hindsight is 20/20." Like, having a solution only AFTER knowing the original attempt was wrong.
Joel was pretty spot on with his attempt at making sense of the phrase. I'd describe it as a sports fan analyzing what his team did wrong the next day. Another similar phrase would be "armchair quarterback" in which a fan analyzes what the team could have done better while watching a game from the comfort of his own home.
Exactly
See, I've always felt that phrase was more akin to the phrase "backseat driver" - it's a person who thinks they know what the REAL (sunday night) quarterback needed to do to win. It's not only about hindsight because it also implies the person has no real control over or experience in the situation :)
I agree 100% !
The Monday Morning Quarterback is the guy in the office who is yelling about what everyone did wrong during the 🏈 game yesterday. He always thinks he knows what to do even though he doesn’t really have a clue. He is a really annoying guy.
So fun you two! American here. I’ve heard of all of these. My dad is 50 years older than me so he used all of these when I was growing up. Some phrases are used today, some not so much. Depends on age and region of the country. Makes sense that some Americans haven’t heard of some of these.
1. "Shoot the breeze" not only means idle conversation, but it means relaxed, and non-confrontational. You wouldn't "shoot the breeze" with someone you don't like, and any form of argument is not "shooting the breeze." Another term is "small talk" but "shoot the breeze" implies a longer conversation. "Shoot the breeze" would likely not apply to old women gabbing because there's no excited or impatient speech or topic of conversation when "shooting the breeze." "Shoot the breeze" also implies a conversation is completely un-steered. There is no central topic of conversation, you just talk about whatever to be friendly.
2. Professional American football played primarily on Sunday. A "Monday morning quarterback" is a lay person who critiques what a team's quarterback [who executes the offensive plan each play] _should_ have done in a particular situation in the game the next morning to his lay person buddies, probably while at work. However, it's extremely presumptuous, as it's difficult for a lay person to realistically put himself in the position of the professional quarterback, and the game is over so it doesn't matter anyways. The term can also be used figuratively to describe someone out of their depth preaching wisdom about a topic they don't really have any practical experience with in a manner or time where they can't be proved inept about it. "Monday morning quarterback" is never used as a verb.
3. "For the birds" could also be said to be "for the crows" or the like. It refers to petty or unimportant bits that interest no one except those who rely or depend on them for survival. "For the lesser, common folk" could have a similar connotation in some contexts.
4. "Put up your dukes" is the same as "put up your fists, and prepare to fight!" (hand to hand confrontation). It's a warning to another person that you are annoyed or angry or offended and are going to fight them (without weapons), whether they're ready or not. A similar phrase is "to duke it out" which means to engage in hand-to-hand combat. For both, "dukes" means *fists* directly.
5. The "behind the 8 ball" has disputed origin, but definitely comes from the collective of billiard games of Pool, which involves striking wooden balls with a long rod on a flat, felt, and enclosed surface with the goal of driving all of the balls into holes at the edges of the table. For many types of games of Pool, only the "cue ball" can be struck at the other balls. Because of this, it's possible the cue ball may come to rest in a position that is tricky or impossible to skillfully strike further according to the rules. It means to be in a "no-win" or impossible situation.
6. "To 'table' an item" means to intend to get back to it at a later date. This would usually be uttered at a meeting, such as a committee meeting, where a a planned agenda is being followed, and an item on the agenda can't be resolved immediately. It would be "Tabled" for further discussion later or another meeting. "To table" could also be used as a verb to mean to put something at its proper place on the dinner table, especially for a dinner party.
7. "Plead the fifth" comes directly from the U.S. Constitution. The Fifth Amendment states that you are not obligated to give testimony that criminally implicates or condemns yourself. Many people assume that the only reason someone would "plead the fifth" is because they know they're guilty of something and do not want to give evidence to it, but this is not the case. Even the appearance of an impropriety can be used as a reason to "plead the fifth" even when one is not actually guilty. In all cases here, "plead" means the legal term of declaration of position or disposition.
On number two there is a related term. "Armchair quarterbacking" another related term is if you say someone is being and "Armchair general". They are just variations on the same saying. Though with the "armchair general" one it normal is in relation to someone that does it in reference to decisions made by military leaders (mostly of ones in the field).
I think their guess on for the birds may be close to where the saying comes from (though not what it is used for). If you have something (at least when it comes to food) that is worthless or left over (garbage) you throw it out where the birds then end up eating it and/or picking at it. And I think that then over time became the saying "for the birds"
I am American and I Don't know Monday morning quarterback means
It's similar to back seat driver. It's somebody who says they should have done this or that with the benefit of hindsight.
You obviously don't follow the NFL.
NFL games are on Sunday, so it's someone criticizing what happened the day after - Monday morning.
A Monday morning quarterback is someone who thinks they can do your job better than you despite having no experience and waits until your done to explain all your mistakes. And it's a noun.
Marybeth -- then you are not actually American . We'll need to see some ID please ma'am .
These are really old. Like my great-grandma said some of these. I was so confused. Instead of "tabling" we would more say "put it on the back burner"
Kieran Shae Blue I always heard, how about we shelve it?
I’ve never heard any of these alternatives. I typically use an ambiguous “let’s deal with it later”
Most people I know say to put a pin in it
Tabling an item is more in the world of business or politics. You might hear that in a boardroom or a county commission meeting.
"For the birds" can have a couple of meanings, but essentially means "that's ridiculous" or "pay no attention to such a trivial thing." Or, "He's for the birds" can mean "he's gone off the deep end."
In certain variations in the game of billiards ("pool"), you cannot hit the 8 ball with the cue or cue ball if there are other balls left to play, the 8 ball being the last ball you may play. So you may be in the position of another ball that must be played but you can't because the 8 ball is in the way.
Plead the fifth means, I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate me.
Ding, ding, ding. You are correct.
But this is a terminology/jargon found in law
Thought it would be universal
Amc Velt no other country has a bill of rights that protects them from their government
Yes Joel you were really close, a Monday Morning Quarterback is usually someone who is considered a sports expert who talks about the game after it has happened critiquing it really hard saying what they could have done better. It's kind of like the American Football version of a backseat driver just after the fact and not during.
"Monday Morning Quarterback" is a bit of an insult. It is saying that the person who is commenting on how the team -should- have played (what plays the quarterback should have played) now has the benefit of knowing how the whole game turned out. (There's another similar phrase: "Hindsight is 20/20".) You usually don't know that something you will try is going to be a mistake until after it fails.
Maybe this is regional?? Never heard it before here in So. Cal....
LisaFlames - I'm from SoCal and I've heard this. It's a common phrase. A Monday morning quarterback might be heard saying something like, "Did you see that pass interception in the 3rd quarter? I can't believe they threw on 2nd and 3 when they were 10 points up. They should've run the ball!" Especially if their team ended up losing the game because of the blunder.
Spangelicious my husband just told me I was ridiculous for claiming to have never heard it lol. I've literally never heard it before! I have officially been educated. 😉
LisaFlames - I had that same experience with "earthquake weather" which is apparently a very common phrase in SoCal that I never heard growing up and thought someone was just making up the first time I heard it. Then it was like everyone was using it, lol.
As an American, I've only ever heard 2 of these, and no one says them in casual conversation :P
Astra Dreemurr i don't think you're american then. I use and know all of these phrases.
I'm in the same boat and have only heard a couple of these phrases but am very young (20)
Depending on which state your in......Or Territory or island.America is so so different because of all of this.I have lived ALL round the US. I've never used that saying and have never heard of it as well.cheers
These kinds of videos always prove to me how HUGE the US is.
I have herd of all of these but some do not get used very muck at all.
You both are hysterical. I love your videos. I get the biggest kick out of your topics. Thanks so much for posting. ❤️
To “table” something comes from Robert’s Rules of Order. It’s rules how to run a proper business meeting. New business, old business. If you start discussing an item and decide you want to just end the meeting and continue or restart the conversation later then you “table” whatever you are talking about.
EDubbs12 see I knew I wasn’t going crazy. I won many a Parliamentary Procedure contest for Future Business Leaders of America learning those terms and procedures.
In UK and US English the meaning is different but in both i applied in a business meeting. UK = put the document, proposal, project on the table and discuss it now. US = put the document. proposal, project aside until later.
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“Put up your dukes” Them’s fighting words! 😜💪🏾👊🏾👊🏾🤣
You're really to fight someone. You say, "Ok, put up your dukes!" Dukes are your closed fists! Plead the fifth. Is "I'm not going to answer that!" It doesn't hav2 to b in a U.S. Courts. It can b said among friends. Someone questioning you and they need or want an answer. You say, "I plead the fifth!" Got it? Get it? GOOD!
"Monday morning quarterbacking" is equivalent to "everyone has 20/20 hindsight." (It's easy to know afterwards what someone should have done.)
I’ve literally only ever heard that in a song.
It's akin to "duke it out" meaning to fight through an issue
You just have to be carful some states have laws still on the books about the use of fighting words "Put up you're dukes", that can land you in legal trouble. Then thats where you get to use the Fifth Amendment. After that you can Monday morning quarterback the job your attorney did, while shooting the breeze about a topic thats for the birds. I know I didn't get them all but see if y'all can keep it going in a logical line, i.e. linking them together. Have fun.
On the table=let's discuss this in detail.
Table it=we'll talk about it later.
Jonathan Sandahl, yes. Then there is 'Offer on the table.' However, that one might be obvious and it is a business saying.
I've mostly heard it in the longer form, "table it for later" where there's no ambiguity.
In Minnesota, it would be more like "table it for now" or "table it until later."
In political lingo, a bill that has "passed out of committee" and is ready to be voted on is put "on the table" in front of the Speaker (leader). The Speaker can ignore it and refuse to allow a vote. If there is no vote by the end of the congressional session, the bill has failed to pass because it was "left on the table." "It died on the table" or more simply "it was tabled."
Jonathan Sandahl yes I was thinking of this one too! I use it both ways. Like in a business setting, “Let’s put it all out on the table”. And discussing too many things: “Let’s table that for later”. Haha.
“Omg! Did you kiss that guy at the club???”
”Ummm... I plead the fifth. ;)”
You don’t want to reveal some incriminating detail about your life.
They're catching on guy's, I think it's time to change all our phrases.
BetterCheddarGetter already done. In fact, some of these kids have done such a bang up job that even we can't understand them.
bluchismoon im a teenager and we have messed up the human race😂😂
Actually Tabling an item has two meanings:
1. "Lets Table it" to set it aside, and talk about it later.
2. "On the table" which means it's up for discussion:
I believe this comes from Parliamentarian Procedure (see Robert's Rules of Order)
Yes but on the table is not the same thing as tabling an item. Two different phrases
Walter Allen Kahn+ Roberts was American.
I’d use, “let’s shelf this”
On the table is more common! It’s ironic bc they mean opposite things but only in the way it’s paired with other terms in the sentence
You could say you were shooting the breeze if you're talking to someone and a 3rd person approached and asked if they interrupted a private or important conversation. "No, we were just shooting the breeze."
I feel like all these phrases were used decades ago because I’ve only ever heard older people use them except for plead the fifth that one is very much still alive 😂
1. Shoot the breeze-just hanging out and chit chatting
2. Monday morning quarterback-looking back in hindsight, blaming a decision that was made on someone or something
3. For the birds-it is ridiculous, crazy thing
4. Put up your dukes-those are fighting words, put up your fists (not literally), often in jest.
5. Behind the 8 ball-referring to a pool table and the 8 ball, I am behind the problem, but I have it under control. I have not used that as a negative statement.
6. Table this-going to put this off til later
7. Plead the fifth-not going to answer the question at hand. Can mean a legal right, when British criminal says to police, "no comment." I watch too many British crime dramas!
Many of these are old statements, that younger Americans might not know. I am 63, and familiar with them! They are often said in jest, sarcastic overtone, and based on context, could mean the opposite.
I'm 18, so thanks for clearing up most of them for me.
@@TheDoctor3300 Same
In Canada, behind the 8 ball refers to being in a difficult situation. In pool, one of the games involves clearing all the balls, before touching the eight ball. To be caught behind the eight ball, is difficult to make the shot.
You did a great job of summarizing concisely! I am an American, and I agree with your summaries except for the "behind the 8 ball one". Where I am from, we use that in a negative sense--just the opposite of how you used it. So, being behind the 8-ball means being in a very unlucky spot. I guess in "pool" or "billiards", this phrase might come from the fact that if you knock the 8 ball in the hole before the end of the game, you automatically lose. I am not sure, though. But, I know we use it in the sense of being "in a very unlucky position".
I hear "plead the 5th" all the time, but I've never heard of the other ones
"Put up your dukes" was something we said as kids back in the 50s, havent heard it since.
Put up your dukes makes me think of Pat Benatar singing hit me with your best shot.
Richard Martin they didn’t do any research so this is an ill informative & unfunny video
@@deeelle697 Duh! These are observations.
Right. An old fashioned expression one seldom hears nowadays.
I'm just happy someone born before the 50s knows how to use the internet. By the way I was born in the 90s and I've known what this phrase means...
sitting on the fence is you're undecided.
Barbara LeMere in my neck of the woods “on the fence” also means bisexual, believe it or not!
Alice H. In my country we say "on the borderline".
I had never heard of the phrase Monday morning quarterback, and I've lived in the US all my life. Also, a common pool game involves leaving the 8 ball for last. So it very bad when you're lining up a shot, and the ball you need to sink is sitting right behind the 8 ball, because sinking the 8 ball anything but last is a loss. So that's where the saying pretty much comes from.