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sir sandwich

noun

Definitions

  1. The practice of beginning and ending a sentence with the address of sir.

    • "Yes, sir, I am wearing glasses, sir!" “Don't give me a sir sandwich! Since you are wearing glasses, you are an NFOC, not an AOC.
    • I replied that he was, with a "sir sandwich" (wedging my response between "sir's").
    • “Sir, yes, sir.” “Are you at the Naval Academy?" “Sir, no, sir.” “Then stop making sir sandwiches, candidate. lt's 'yes, sir' or 'no, sir.'"

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sir sandwich. 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