"He went with." (Thanks Genghis)

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    frankswildyear_s

    Wed Nov 26 2008

    As in "He went with a nice Chianti and some faba beans"?

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    numbah16tdhaha

    Mon Mar 26 2007

    This confuses people?

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    trebon1038

    Sun Mar 25 2007

    Thanks to Bri I get this one now.  At first I was with Kammy...couldn't figure it out.  Not one I hear too often though.

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    donovan

    Thu Mar 22 2007

    OK, this one's new to me but I can see if someone didn't finish their sentence it would be quite...

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    kamylienne

    Wed Mar 21 2007

    "He went with" . . . what? I've never heard this one before.

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    bri719

    Wed Mar 21 2007

    I know exactly what Genghis is talking about - it wasn't immediately obvious, but I was able to figure it out since this could have a couple of meanings.What it is, if someone is having a conversation about going to a movie:Sue:  "Oh yeah, I saw the latest James Bond flick on Friday..."Bob:  "Was Jim there?"Sue: "Yeah, he went with." , instead of saying he went with ME or US.  It's the behavior of leaving off part of a sentence because you assume it's understood, or you're just too freakin' cool to finish it.  Like whoop-de-friggin-do, aren't you special?This can also be something like... "He went with the chicken instead of the steak" (annoying, but not nearly as bad as the previous example.)I also experienced something like example #1 when I was in Jr. High (late '80s) and this one annoying chick I rode to school with would always be using expressions in conversation like "Yeah, same!", "Totally!", "Same!" instead of something more descriptive which is a complete thought, like "same ... Read more

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    genghisthehun

    Tue Mar 20 2007

    I don't hear this that much any more but it drove me crazy when it was in fashion. I heard a talk by a woman one day, and she dropped about half of the objects of the prepositions she used. She must have thought it was cutting edge trendy. I thought it was dull knife edge moronic.

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