Gets my daughter on the bandwagon
"When are we going to get those lights up? let's get those lights up," gets my daughter on the bandwagon and "Dad are you gonna get the lights up?"
Gets my daughter on the bandwagon - means to put her in in some kind of a wagon? I don't know what is this since it has to do with christmas time no:)?
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He betrays his misapprehension of the expression "get on the bandwagon", but he somehow gets away with it. Or maybe he just misspoke or the writers are very clever. Or not.
- He betrays his misapprehension of the expression "get on the bandwagon", but he somehow gets away with it.
- Or maybe he just misspoke or the writers are very clever.
- Or not.
- org/dictionary/english/bandwagon You get on the bandwagon when you begin to participate in an activity that is becoming more and more popular.
- He says that his wife gets his daughter on the bandwagon, which is nonsense, but if you think of a literal bandwagon, a sort of parade float with a band on it, it kind of makes sense.
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He betrays his misapprehension of the expression "get on the bandwagon", but he somehow gets away with it. Or maybe he just misspoke or the writers are very clever. Or not. The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is very good for this sort of thing: https://dictionary.cambridge.org
0anonymousGets my daughter on the bandwagon - means to put her in in some kind of a wagon?
No. It means that his wife begins to encourage their daughter to join in on nagging him to put up the Christmas lights. (His wife denies this happened, however.)
get/climb/hop/jump on the bandwagon
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