![]() Please send us your suggestion, and we could feature it in the next update. CUPPA JOE MEANING MOVIELaw and Order: Special Victims Unit “Gone” (2006)Ĭasey Novak: You know, Jennifer’s hotel is in Midtown, right? Middle of the night, no traffic, Bayside diner’s a 15-minute trip from there.ĭetective Olivia Benson: Gives them more than two hours to kill Jennifer, dump her and the car.ĭetective Odafin ‘Fin’ Tutuola: Get to the diner, grab a cup of joe, report the Chevy stolen.ĭetective Elliot Stabler: Maybe it was stolen.ĭetective Odafin ‘Fin’ Tutuola: A ’71 Chevelle? At today’s gas prices?ĭo you know an example of this idiom from another movie or TV show? Sweet merciful Lord, this is happening! You’re being laughed at in slow motion by a roomful of inferiors whom you used to terrify. It’s usually masked by the smell of fear. Wait, what’s that smell? Dear god, that’s coffee. Just calmly pour yourself a cup of joe and focus. They’re not laughing at you because your physical video. The cruel slow-motion laughter is just your imagination. ![]() Bateson set down the characteristics of "respectable English." I did a… twitter.Examples of this Idiom in Movies & TV Shows:Ĭpl. #Intrusiveof on nytimes home page! Fritinancy BryanAGarner 3 days ago.Definitely seems to be quite big of a thing. What’s next, cold beverages?Īustralianisms Business Canadianisms Cockup Commerce Doobious NOOBs Elegant variation Faux NOOBs Food and drinks Grammar Historical NOOBs Insults Journalese Military slang One-off Britishisms On the radar Outliers Politics Polls Profanity Pronunciation Really? Self-promotion Shape-shifters Slang Spelling Sport The New Yorker Uncategorized Ventriloquism TweetsĮarly contender for quotation of the year: "it could take time to clean up the poo-poo, literally and figuratively."-Nancy Pelosi 2 days ago The Philadelphia Daily News recently noted: “One trick is to stir chopped chocolate into a little of the milk to make a paste, then add that to the rest of the steamed milk, for a smoother, richer cuppa.” That’s right, a hot chocolate cuppa. At $500 per pound, it’s also among the world’s priciest.įor now, only the wealthy or well-traveled have access to the cuppa, which is called Black Ivory Coffee. Stomach turning or oddly alluring, this is not just one of the world’s most unusual specialty coffees. ‘ What drink is a cup of joe Another theory holds that coffee came to be known as joe, because joe itself is a slang term for a common fellow. A gut reaction creates what its founder calls the coffee’s unique taste. What does it mean if someone asks for a cup of joe A cup of coffee became disparagingly known as ‘a cup of Joseph Daniels,’ and as legend has it, this was soon shortened to a ‘cup of Joe. Trumpeted as earthy in flavor and smooth on the palate, the exotic new brew is made from beans eaten by Thai elephants and plucked a day later from their dung. In the lush hills of northern Thailand, a herd of 20 elephants is helping to excrete some of the world’s most expensive coffee. And an Associated Press dispatch from December 2012, datelined “Golden Triangle, Thailand,” begins: Thus, Holley’s Cuppa is a coffee shop in Las Vegas. McKay alludes to it: cuppa to mean (the horror!) a cup of coffee. The interesting thing about cuppa is that, like some other NOOBs (their identity escapes my mind at the moment), it has acquired an additional meaning here. This disparaging term, first recorded in 1977, conjures up the image of a man in undershirt and construction helmet who will down all of a six-pack (six cans or bottles of beer sold in a package) in an evening. For example, I don't think opera will appeal to Joe Six-pack he'd prefer a rock concert. The Tampa Bay Times in an article last month referred to a local establishment that serves “lunch and an old-fashioned cuppa,” and the Palm Beach Post said of a tea house in that city, “the experience isn’t complete without a girl to chatter with and a good, strong cuppa.” (Must be something about Florida.) Joe Six-pack Joe Six-pack A lower-middle-class male. ![]() or Commonwealth sources.īut McKay is right that it’s hit these shores. Well, McKay, 79 years, 400 years, what’s the diff? The OED says the term is used “elliptically” and colloquially to mean cup o’ tea and offers a first citation from Ngaio Marsh’s A Man Lay Dead (1934): “Taking a strong cuppa at six-thirty in their shirt sleeves.” All subsequent citations are from U.K. What’s with the newly trendy use of the word cuppa, to imply a coffee- or tea-drinking experience? My lovely wife tells me that this is a “400-year-old” British expression. ![]()
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