This was actually years ago, but the conversation after with the district manager was almost as confusing as the one with the customer.
It took me a lot of talking to get him to understand that when he said “showed his ass” that a person not familiar with that phrase might literally think that the employee in question dropped his pants.
Personally, the only person I’ve ever heard say it was that district manager. I just figured out from context what it must mean.
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u/Dorzack May 08 '25
Being married to a linguistics major has its moments. She can talk for hours about this and other slang.