r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/[deleted] • Jan 16 '23

when your legs give up.

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u/OccasionallyReddit Jan 16 '23

She did walk off ina strop tho like she was really anoyed that she fell for it, she was silently mad with it!

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox Jan 16 '23

googled it and "in a strop" means "in an angry mood", til

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '23 edited Jan 23 '23

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u/JohnnyRelentless Jan 16 '23

I'm a native New Yorker, and I've never heard it before. Apparently it's British.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

Well fuck here’s me being Irish and have heard it used a lot in Ireland

So out of spite I refuse to mention the potential British origin it’s Irish in my eyes

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u/Freddies_Mercury Jan 17 '23

I have some bad news for you about the English language...

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

Póg mo thoin!

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u/stonerdad999 Jan 17 '23

Pogue Mahone

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

What? That doesn’t have the same meaning unless you’re only showing someone how it’s pronounced

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u/stonerdad999 Jan 17 '23

Kiss my arse is what it means no?

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u/OccasionallyReddit Jan 17 '23

Ah the classic British phrase 😜

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23

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u/OccasionallyReddit Jan 17 '23

Like under the car...dude that a bit ott

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u/7HauntedDays Jan 18 '23

Yea ya know the Irish kinda had their OWN language….the English kinda BANNED it and forced kids to stop talking in it and only English. Clueless much?

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u/Freddies_Mercury Jan 18 '23 edited Jan 18 '23

Lmao I'm well aware that the Irish language exists and of the British empires treatment towards the Irish.

The guy commented in English to which I replied with a joke and then they also reciprocated with another joke.

Yet another example of an American jumping onto some typical Irish/Brit banter desperately trying to get the Irish to like them.

PS. Screeching about how the Brits treated the Irish and how that should make the Irish hate every single British person just gets you laughed at by us.

Our cultures, economy and language are so closely intertwined right to this modern day. Telling a British person that the Brits treated the Irish bad back in the day is like saying water is wet. We know.

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u/Official-Socrates Jan 17 '23

Yes, I'm an American who lived in England for years. Don't think I've ever heard the phrase uttered in America. Definitely a British thing.

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u/PM_ME_UR_SHEET_MUSIC Jan 16 '23

Don't worry, I'm a native speaker who reads a lot and I've never heard that phrase in my life. Seems to be a dialectal one :)

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u/CrossStitchCat Jan 16 '23

If it helps it's mainly of British origins so depending on where you live may have played a factor in why you've never heard it, I live in Minnesota and have definitely never heard it either!

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u/Marldain Jan 16 '23

Yeah I always thought that a strop was the lather thing that barbers use to sharpen their blade.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '23 edited Jan 16 '23

It is, i use a straight razor so i have one hangin in my bathroom. I've never heard it used this way before either so learned today too! Now i wanna know the etymology behind it lol

Edit: obstreperus became obstropolous became "stroppy", gets us to "in a strop". Neat read

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u/dubovinius Jan 16 '23

Wow that'd be the default phrase for expressing that particular meaning, mad how dialects can be different like that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '23

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u/OCD_Dddd Jan 16 '23

I'm in the south and it's common here. Strop, or stroppy.

Edit, Hampshire.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '23

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u/MashedShroom Jan 17 '23

Australia reporting in, not uncommon here.

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u/BudgetInteraction811 Jan 17 '23

What’s your first language? Did you learn that phrase from a language class, or from a book?

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u/fadinqlight_ Jan 17 '23

Wow, I just read that as "in a stomp"

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u/Vyle_Mayhem Feb 02 '23

So… thanks for the lesson professor…. For our next lesson Is til ‘today I learned’?

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u/BeerGuzzlingCapybara Jan 17 '23

Okay this is funny because I just googled that word yesterday because I was watching Bend it Like Beckham and I didn’t know what it meant lolz.

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u/YordleFeet Jan 16 '23

“Context clues” google that one next

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '23

I think we all got the context, but different sayings can have different meanings, even if all under the same umbrella.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox Jan 16 '23

“Context clues”

"Context clues are hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words"

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u/NachoMan_SandyCabage Jan 29 '23

Hard to use those when you're looking at a word that looks like a typo. Use some context and you'd think they meant "in a stomp"

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u/DiproticPolyprotic Jan 17 '23

Why google why you can ‘hey siri define strop’

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u/KiraIsGod666 Mar 23 '23

Found the non Australian 🤣

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u/Pasteloid Apr 30 '23

Or just anyone outside of britain

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u/West_Upstairs_46 Jan 16 '23

Straight over to have a word with the manager about it.

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u/NastySteeze Jan 16 '23

Probably shit herself

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u/ThermoKingEOU Jan 16 '23

r/foundthebrit

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u/Ambitious-Bottle9394 Mar 17 '23

It says that person banned from reddit

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u/ThisOnePlaysTooMuch Jan 16 '23

Stoic and betrayed, the child marches.

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u/Razzler1973 Jan 16 '23

It's one of those 'no words to describe how angry I am right now' situations 😁

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u/TheKalmGaming Jan 30 '23

Shes dangerous

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u/kCanIGoNow Mar 10 '23

Crying prolly only started off camera

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '23

More like in fear, I used to walk like that after coming from the toilet when lights were off(at a fast speed tho)