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what color is your Bugatti

what color is your Bugatti phrase: an expression intended to flaunt one’s own material possessions and simultaneously deride another person for not owning them.

Phrase

what color is your Bugatti?

  1. (humorous, often, rhetoric, sarcastic, slang) An expression intended to flaunt one’s own material possessions and simultaneously deride another person for not owning them.
    • Many secondary school teachers feel they were slow to pick up on Tate’s influence. Last year, they began to notice pupils using phrases they didn’t recognise: “What colour is your Bugatti?” (a way of bragging about status); “Make me a sandwich” (to belittle women and girls).2023 February 2, Sally Weale, “‘We see misogyny every day’: how Andrew Tate’s twisted ideology infiltrated British schools”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 08 May 2024
    • Here’s a more innocuous example: If students are making repeated references to Bugatti, the luxury sports car, they might be watching Andrew Tate videos. The influencer’s infamous retort, “What color is your Bugatti?,” has been popularized as a way of bragging about one’s possessions.2023 February 10, Madeline Will, “5 Ways Teachers Can Confront Students’ Exposure to Andrew Tate and Other Online Extremists”, in Education Week, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2024

Forms of what color is your Bugatti

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Origin of what color is your Bugatti

Coined by Andrew Tate in March 2022 during a video with YouTuber Mike Thurston, and was popularized not long after. In the video, Tate flaunts his newest Bugatti Chiron to Thurston, and explains to him how he handles the people who say they dislike its color: he deridingly asks them, what color is your Bugatti? knowing that the vast majority of them are unlikely to own one.

Questions about what color is your Bugatti

What does what color is your Bugatti mean?
What color is your Bugatti means an expression intended to flaunt one’s own material possessions and simultaneously deride another person for not owning them.
What part of speech is what color is your Bugatti?
What color is your Bugatti is a phrase.

Words near what color is your Bugatti in the dictionary

  1. what can I tell you
  2. what can one do
  3. what can you do
  4. what cheer
  5. what color is the sun in your world
  6. what color is your Bugatti
  7. what colour is your Bugatti
  8. what comes around goes around
  9. what date is it today
  10. what day is it today
  11. what did I tell you

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