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[โ€“] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We should retire the idiom because people are using it as intended and everyone understands it as intended?

[โ€“] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 7 months ago

I think people intend it to be a clever undercutting of the person they dislike. But it stopped being clever ages ago. When does something become a cliche? Because it just sounds petty now.