how you say
how you say phrase: used as a filled pause to imitate a stereotypical non-native English speaker: how do you say it? What is the expression?
Phrase
how you say
- Used as a filled pause to imitate a stereotypical non-native English speaker: how do you say it? What is the expression?
- Wine Merchant: “What do you think of the sample, Monsieur; fifteen years in bottle, hey, hey?”—Frenchman: “How you say, Sare, fifteen years in bottle; how that it possceble, when instanement that I pop out the cork, out comes one large fly. […]1827 April 17, “Mr. Mathews at Home; or, Home Circuit and Cockney Gleanings”, in The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror, volume 7, number 355, Liverpool: E. Smith & Co., page 339
- “I come to thees country to make new life. Rico, he tells me I can do good here. Signor Mosko, I pay him the monies, he weel arrange. Ees no good. I am—how you say?—without help. […]1950 May, Robert Bloch, “Tell Your Fortune”, in Dorothy McIlwraith, editor, Weird Tales, volume 42, number 4, New York, page 10
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- How you say means used as a filled pause to imitate a stereotypical non-native English speaker: how do you say it? What is the expression?
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- How you say is a phrase.
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