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This time of year reminds me of an idiom which you will not find in the idiom dictionaries or webpages but it was and is used a lot by locals in the North of England, where my roots are.
If a college student comes back after their first term at University and - to impress - uses complicated language, which the addressee doesn't understand or more often deliberately misunderstands, this is the standard reply as a putdown :-
--Of course, I'm referring to Durkheim's anomie, which obviously refers to the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and their community ties. The result is fragmentation of social identity and rejection of self-regulatory values.
--Yeah, we had one of those for Christmas.
This reply is accompanied by a lower pursed lip and a deliberate lapse into broad dialect. Any equivalents?:twit:
If a college student comes back after their first term at University and - to impress - uses complicated language, which the addressee doesn't understand or more often deliberately misunderstands, this is the standard reply as a putdown :-
--Of course, I'm referring to Durkheim's anomie, which obviously refers to the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and their community ties. The result is fragmentation of social identity and rejection of self-regulatory values.
--Yeah, we had one of those for Christmas.
This reply is accompanied by a lower pursed lip and a deliberate lapse into broad dialect. Any equivalents?:twit: