"Let's do this"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Nov 25 16:01:45 UTC 2013


On Nov 25, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> Depends -- do you hang with people who play World of Warcraft?

Not to my knowledge.  Is there some discussion of this phrase, its origin, and its applications?  Just curious.  We've survived "Where's the beef?", "My bad", and "Let's roll" (and "That's the way I roll"), and we'll probably survive this.

LH

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> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> When did this start?  I'm now hearing it as a tag on commercials, but
>> judging from urbandictionary it's been around for awhile.  Here's a gloss
>> and one of the cleaner cites:
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>> A phrase which connotates the beginning or initiation of something fun,
>> such as a party, club excursion, bar crawl, or the like.
>> Three people get into a cab on their way to a party. Prior to getting in,
>> one of them says "Alright, let's do this!"
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>> In my memory nobody has used this live in my hearing, but I could have
>> missed it.
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>> LH
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