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how do you do, fellow kids

how do you do, fellow kids phrase: used to criticize someone attempting to appeal to the youth as out of touch.

Phrase

how do you do, fellow kids?

  1. Used to criticize someone attempting to appeal to the youth as out of touch.
    • This is the dim path where […] a legitimate candidate of the working class will be hammered over and over in an authenticity battle with a campaign that weekly releases some “How do you do, fellow kids?” embarrassment and whose Instagram manager is a woman with her own HBO series.2016 February 2, Jeb Lund, “The Electability Spin Machine”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2018
    • Five years ago, at the crisp age of 20 (how do you do, fellow kids), I hit the road for a three-hour drive from Pennsylvania to the house of my long-distance-boyfriend-at-the-time in Connecticut.2019 October 24, Medea Giordano, “My Fellow Youths: Stop Sleeping on the GPS”, in Wirecutter, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021

Forms of how do you do, fellow kids

alternative formhello, fellow kids

Origin of how do you do, fellow kids

From “The Tuxedo Begins” (2012), an episode of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, wherein the character Lenny Wosniak uses the greeting after appearing undercover as an unconvincing high-schooler.

Questions about how do you do, fellow kids

What does how do you do, fellow kids mean?
How do you do, fellow kids means used to criticize someone attempting to appeal to the youth as out of touch.
What part of speech is how do you do, fellow kids?
How do you do, fellow kids is a phrase.

Words near how do you do, fellow kids in the dictionary

  1. how do I get to the airport
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  3. how do I get to the train station
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  5. how do you do
  6. how do you do, fellow kids
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  8. how do you like
  9. how do you like that
  10. how do you like them apples
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