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where's the beef

where's the beef phrase: where is the content? So what?

Phrase

where's the beef?

  1. (US, idiomatic) Where is the content? So what?

Origin of where's the beef

From a catchphrase in a 1980s television commercial for the fast food chain Wendy's.

Questions about where's the beef

What does where's the beef mean?
Where's the beef means where is the content? So what?
What part of speech is where's the beef?
Where's the beef is a phrase.

Words near where's the beef in the dictionary

  1. where'er
  2. where'm
  3. where'n
  4. where're
  5. where's
  6. where's the beef
  7. where's the cameras
  8. where's the fire
  9. where's the lie
  10. where's the lie tho
  11. where've

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