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Weird how "light out" and "lights out" have completely different meanings
Sunday, 21-Jun-15 09:21:50 UTC from web-
@metaltao Probably
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@metaltao I do?
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@metaltao Okay, she's really drunk but I know what she's trying to say, let me help.
She's talking about how "Lights out" is a thing people say to people as a way of saying "go to sleep", whereas "light out" generally means "it's light outside" as in it's day time. -
@pandabear That didn't make sense
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@metaltao In the phrase "light out" the word "light" is being used as a verb to remove the light from a source like a lantern or candle (which in retrospect seems kind of counter-intuitive, but it's actually just because it's a warped version of "turn out the lights"). In the phrase "lights out", it is often a shortened version of "knocking someone's lights out", as in knocking someone out. Though "lights out" can be used with the former meaning of "light out", so I don't know if I'd say the two have completely different meanings as much as one possess specific connotations unique from the other.
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@pandabear Oh yeah, that's another meaning for "light out". Broken colloquial English is strange, eh?
