Timeline for Is "and then some" an offensive expression?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
8 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2012 at 16:27 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Absolutely agree with your "the considerably can be ignored" in regard to The Free Dictionary's definition. In fact, I suspect it's almost always the case that the "considerable" implication will already be present earlier in the utterance, applying to whatever we're already talking about. In the case of the stone needed for your job, for example, no-one would be likely to say "The job required a couple of small bags of stone, and then some". Plus it's got nothing to do with offensiveness - it's just very "informal/slangy". | |
| Jul 13, 2012 at 14:51 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 381 characters in body; added 188 characters in body
|
| Jul 12, 2012 at 22:34 | comment | added | Daniel | That's why I said It's really only judgmental in cases such as this, when you're listing someone else's mistakes. | |
| Jul 12, 2012 at 22:33 | comment | added | Tolerance72 | Context is everything. "The hotel offered every luxury we had hoped for, and then some." | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 19:19 | vote | accept | Abel | ||
| Jun 29, 2012 at 14:58 | comment | added | Daniel | It's really only judgmental in cases such as this, when you're listing someone else's mistakes. In sentences like The job required a truckload of stone, and then some, it wouldn't be at all out of place. It's just when you're telling someone the mistakes he made, it's not that polite to pile it on. | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 14:56 | comment | added | Abel | Arm's length? As in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%27s_length_principle? But bottom line, I gather there is a judgmental tone to it. | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 14:47 | history | answered | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |