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asking for a friend

phrase

Definitions

  1. Indicates that a question is embarrassing by pretending to be posing the question on…

    Indicates that a question is embarrassing by pretending to be posing the question on behalf of another person.

    • “Oh, please, like we'd ever believe that whole 'I'm asking for a friend' routine.”
    • How many more of these #debates do we have to suffer through? Asking for a friend. — Eva Amurri Martino (@TheHappilyEva)
    • "So what really is "in the shooting motion" rule?!?!?" James wrote on Twitter. "Asking for a friend @OfficialNBARefs."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for asking for a friend. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA