We're green.
In a teen movie 'The Edge of Seventeen', a teen girl asks her male classmate if she can swim in the pool in his house.
And he answers:
Yes. I got towels. We're good to go. We're green.
It seems We're green here means the same thing as We're good to go, and that green "the green light". Right?
Is it a common expression?
Top answer
Yes, this is apparently an emphasis on the previous phrase - by repetition - that is, "We're good to go. " I've never heard this phrase before, but this is a teen movie, and this is apparently "flavor-of-the-month"-type teen slang - that is, a month from now it might be out-of-fashion and no longer used.
- Yes, this is apparently an emphasis on the previous phrase - by repetition - that is, "We're good to go.
- " I've never heard this phrase before, but this is a teen movie, and this is apparently "flavor-of-the-month"-type teen slang - that is, a month from now it might be out-of-fashion and no longer used.
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Yes, this is apparently an emphasis on the previous phrase - by repetition - that is, "We're good to go. We've got the green light (to go)." I've never heard this phrase before, but this is a teen movie, and this is apparently "flavor-of-the-month"-type teen slang - that is, a month from now it might be out-of-fashion and no longer used.
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