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Dark Fury Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

I bring new meaning to the term

I'm almost always late, in fact I bring new meaning to the term 'fashionably late' because by the time I arrive, its probably out of fashion!

Could you please explain to me this expression "I bring new meaning to the term"?

  

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This is a joke. "

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This is a joke. The sense here is: "I'm always real late for everything (for school, for work, for appointments, for meetings, etc.), in fact, you might say that the phrase "fashionably late" (this phrase means purposely being as late as possible, so as to seem sophisticated, like being late for a dinner party) was coined just for me: by the time I arrive, the fashions in clothing have chan

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