User:RobertPlausible/Phrases

Phrases

• Sunk cost
  • Meaning: An investment already incurred that can't be recovered

Reacting to something indifferently:

• You don’t say.

An indifferent reaction that is ironic in nature

• Yes it's breathtaking.
  • Or simply: Breathtaking

Reaction to someone you know being annoying or doing:

• You know that’s just like him.

Reacting to someone doing something predictable or denying something:

• Well he would, wouldn’t he?

Reacting to a bad event (not always said out loud)

• Well…
• And yet the world continues to spin.

Reaction to something in approval or with some sense or appreciation or understanding

• Hey, nothing wrong with that.
  • Nothing wrong with that.

Affirmations

• This we know.
  • Can also be used as a reaction to information that has been pre-established, or an introduction of information that is known while it is being introduced to others.

Deniability

• Don’t know anything about that.
  • Notable in the Season 8, Episode 16 of Seinfeld, “The Pothole”.

Insults

In English

• Jackass - Obama referring to Kanye West in 2009.

Spanish (just for fun)

• Pendejo - Asshole*
  • Cállate pendejo - Shut up, asshole
• Pobre cito - Poor thing