What do these phrases mean

FullblownRose

Meaning of ''Welcome home'' from someone you don't know and definitely don't live with

and ''I wish you would'' (from someone else)

smoking_kills

FullblownRose wrote: »

Meaning of ''Welcome home'' from someone you don't know and definitely don't live with

and ''I wish you would'' (from someone else)

You would mind mice at a crossroads....

BeerWolf

FullblownRose wrote: »

and ''I wish you would'' (from someone else)

Would you kindly...


[I surely hope someone knows what I'm referencing too! ]

alchemist33

FullblownRose wrote: »

Meaning of ''Welcome home'' from someone you don't know and definitely don't live with

and ''I wish you would'' (from someone else)

Needs context.

4Sticks

the fundamentals are sound

AnonoBoy

"Sure he's as dry as a fish in a broccoli powered dyson air blade." was one that always puzzled me.

IM0

FullblownRose wrote: »

Meaning of ''Welcome home'' from someone you don't know and definitely don't live with

and ''I wish you would'' (from someone else)

welcome home, is youre home....I noticed

other one is please do this usually

FullblownRose

Sorry, can't provide it! ''Wish you would'' was just said with no obvious meaning but in a friendly enough way.

Welcome home, said to me in town recently. Maybe the person thought they knew me!

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Sorry what?

FullblownRose

No, it sounded like an expression I just am not familiar with, they weren't asking me to do something. Thought it might be a regional thing.

Cee-Jay-Cee

FullblownRose wrote: »

Meaning of ''Welcome home'' from someone you don't know and definitely don't live with

Explain the context in which it was said to you. I've only heard it from people I know and only if I've been away out of the country and in that context it makes perfect sense.

gramar

That's a fairly cryptic post there OP. Sound like excerpts from a dream you've had.

FullblownRose

CJC999 wrote: »

Explain the context in which it was said to you. I've only heard it from people I know and only if I've been away out of the country and in that context it makes perfect sense.

That is why I asked- because I have not been away, didn't know the man and don't know why he would welcome me home. It was not said in the context of someone greeting someone else who had been away.
It was actually said to me when I was walking past a complete stranger and it doesn't make any sense.I'm going to conclude that he either thought I was someone else or he was a bit odd.

FullblownRose

gramar wrote: »

That's a fairly cryptic post there OP. Sound like excerpts from a dream you've had.

Oh, that must be it! How silly of me


Have you never been curious about the meaning of an out-of-place phrase?

--Kaiser--

smoking_kills wrote: »

You would mind mice at a crossroads....

U wot mate?

Chucken

AnonoBoy wrote: »

"Sure he's as dry as a fish in a broccoli powered dyson air blade." was one that always puzzled me.

Oh please try explain it....I'm fairly confused by it myself

JuliusCaesar

Sorry, can't provide it! ''Wish you would'' was just said with no obvious meaning but in a friendly enough way.

Welcome home, said to me in town recently. Maybe the person thought they knew me!

Maybe he said it accidentally, meaning to say something else? "Nice day" or other trite phrase, got mixed up with the "Welcome home" trite phrase. (Have done this myself)

gramar

FullblownRose wrote: »

Oh, that must be it! How silly of me


Have you never been curious about the meaning of an out-of-place phrase?

The guy who said it was obviously a bit loola or it was one of those occasions where what you say bears no resemblence whatsoever to what you meant to say.

Rasheed

smoking_kills wrote: »

You would mind mice at a crossroads....

I love that one. It means you're as cute and sly enough to be able to mind mice at a crossroads. Basically mice, being fast and hard to kept track of at the best of times, and they're a crossroads, they'd have four routes to go, four routes for you to guard!

AnonoBoy

Chucken wrote: »

Oh please try explain it....I'm fairly confused by it myself

Well I always presumed it meant someone was frugal or else really good in bed.

FullblownRose

Yes. Come to think of it I have had a brain glitch and said something completely different to what I intended to say, once or twice . It happens.

aujopimur

Shur.

gramar

Maybe he meant to say 'how's it goin' ....and it came out as or sounded like 'welcome home'.

FullblownRose

gramar wrote: »

Maybe he meant to say 'how's it goin' ....and it came out as or sounded like 'welcome home'.

Had to be something like that, otherwise it makes no sense

gramar

FullblownRose wrote: »

Had to be something like that, otherwise it makes no sense

or maybe he was just ****in' with yer head. He might like going around saying nonsensical random statements to strangers. Welcome home.

Chucken

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Well I always presumed it meant someone was frugal or else really good in bed.

Did you just make it up?

Chareth Cutestory

You're absolutely sure he wasn't on the phone at the time? That might sound condescending but I only ask because he was a complete stranger and it was said while walking past you, but maybe not actually directed at you? But he must have been making eye contact with you while he said it in order for you to think he was talking to you. Perhaps it was one of those cases where you mean to say something and something completely different comes out as suggested by others. Strange...

Now I've gone and lost my train of thought, what was I saying...oh yes, welcome home!

Idle Passerby

FullblownRose wrote: »

Oh, that must be it! How silly of me


Have you never been curious about the meaning of an out-of-place phrase?

Its the way you asked the meaning of not even full sentences but snippets of sentences with no reference to who said them or what the rest of the conversation was.

The guy who welcomed you home must have mistaken you for someone else, that would be my conclusion. "I wish you would.." obviously mean "please do this...". As in "I wish you would take out the bins" would commonly be interpreted as a person expressing their desire for you to take out the bins. Seems fairly obvious to me.

AnonoBoy

Chucken wrote: »

Did you just make it up?

I would appear to have.... yes.

I'm confused though so it might be a Salman Rushdie line.

Chucken

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I would appear to have.... yes.

I'm confused though so it might be a Salman Rushdie line.

Now I know you're messing!

Salman Rushdie would never start a sentence with "sure" :P

AnonoBoy

Chucken wrote: »

Now I know you're messing!

Salman Rushdie would never start a sentence with "sure" :P

No flies on you!

Anyway we all know Rushie was more a Hoover than a Dyson man.

FullblownRose

There was no context to speak of, the welcome home bit came out of the blue from a stranger, who was indeed looking at me and moved toward me with his arms outstretched a bit. The other comment was said by a friend during an ordinary conversation and didn't make any sense to me either. It looks like neither are well known phrases anyway.

MadsL

FullblownRose wrote: »

Meaning of ''Welcome home'' from someone you don't know and definitely don't live with

This would mean I have just met someone at the start of a Burning Man event. Hug to be expected also.

FullblownRose

MadsL wrote: »

This would mean I have just met someone at the start of a Burning Man event. Hug to be expected also.

It was a metal fest, maybe I should have given the poor thing a hug.

Caonima

BeerWolf wrote: »

Would you kindly...


[I surely hope someone knows what I'm referencing too! ]

A certain 'shock' of a 'biological' nature, sir?