Banal expressions

[AnnaG]

My contribution doesn't really fit in with the bright ones (and confusing ones)...written down but I wanted to add something which gets me in a twist and it is used so often.

It is a kind phrase I believe and if delivered it is well-meant as a send off or a temporary goodby from a person who is being nice..... but what does it mean????

"take care...."

How did that one get going? Now it seems habitual....rather than goodbye or even
a more common one "have a nice day"..... but "take care" of what, whom, which ???

Confused curio

Take care = be healthy as near as I can figure out. I adopted it but added my own little bit to it: take care & have fun.

 

[Curiosity]

Thanks people - loved all your answers to my early morning whine...

The one phrase I love most giving to special people who don't mind a bit of a poke.... "try to stay out of trouble today ok?"

It's wonderful to see them thinking up ways to get into trouble almost right away hahaha.... especially the guys!!! divils all of you

 

[AnnaG]

Thanks people - loved all your answers to my early morning whine...

The one phrase I love most giving to special people who don't mind a bit of a poke.... "try to stay out of trouble today ok?"

It's wonderful to see them thinking up ways to get into trouble almost right away hahaha.... especially the guys!!! divils all of you

Trouble is fun, isn't it? lol
Take care & have fun, Curio.

 

[L Gilbert]

"Stop, thief!"
"Yeah, ok, I'll stop, give your purse back, and allow myself to be arrested".

"You are what you eat". Yeah, we are all broccoli, oats, and chocolate bars.

"Missing link found". Then it isn't missing, is it?

Someone says, "I feel like sh|t. Um, scuse me but .....

"Can I borrow some some sugar (or coffee or whatever)?"
"No. I don't really wnat it back after you've used it".

 

[SirJosephPorter]

"Goodbye" is the shortened form of "God be with three." Frankly, "Goodbye" has lost its meaning. I for one prefer "Take care!"

Quite so, Spade. Asimov (an avowed Atheist) always used to use the word 'fairwell', rather than 'goodbye'.

 

[JLM]

Quite so, Spade. Asimov (an avowed Atheist) always used to use the word 'fairwell', rather than 'goodbye'.

I've never had a problem with "good bye", "So long" was another we used a lot, although maybe not so much lately. Now it's more likely to be "chow"

 

[Curiosity]

JLM

An often used one down here in a more serious mood is a grumpy deliverance like a bad black and white police movie....

"Later!".....

 

[SirJosephPorter]

I've never had a problem with "good bye", "So long" was another we used a lot, although maybe not so much lately. Now it's more likely to be "chow"

‘So long’ and ‘chow’ are more informal, JLM and generally are not used in serious writing. I personally don’t have a problem with ‘goodbye’, but evidently Asimov did. He always used the word ‘farewell’.

Even his final piece (when he knew that he was shortly going to die), he ended thus:

Farewell. Farewell.