just die already?

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while watching Family Guy, I heard Brian said "oh, just die already" when he heard a reporter saying things offensive to him on TV. what does this expression mean?Thanks in advance.

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Anonymouswhile watching Family Guy, I heard Brian said "oh, just die already" when he heard a reporter saying things offensive to him on TV. what does this expression mean?

Something between "shut up" and "go away."

CalifJim · Answer

AnonymousI heard Brian ~~said~~ say "Oh, just die already" when he heard a reporter saying things offensive to him on TV. What does this expression mean?

It might interest you that American English most probably got this pattern of an imperative with already from Yiddish.

Stop it already! So leave already! Also, Enough already! All right already!

See http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/14530/what-exactly-does-already-mean-when-used-in-the-imperative-mood

which contains this:

"This use of already began to appear early in the century," says Sol Steinmetz, ... "among immigrant Yiddish speakers living in New York who were just starting to talk English. By the 1930's it had become common usage among their children who no longer spoke Yiddish -- a development that enabled it to entrench itself in the American language."

CJ

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