"when you know, you know"

ginandtonicsky · 07-08-2018 3:37pm #1

Is there a more annoying phrase in the English language?

First time I remember hearing it was an acquaintance of mine who got engaged to a girl he'd met online three months earlier. Marriage lasted four months, so I guess he knew he knew, until he...didn't know anymore.

Love Island seems to have brought it back into fashion lately. Heard someone say it at work last week. Read it over on PI earlier. I'd throw it up there with "the one" and "soulmates" when it comes to bullsh1t platitudes people throw out when talking about romantic love.

Have you ever said it?

5rtytry56 · 07-08-2018 3:40pm

No.

It used in common parlance. Seems to be popular with Joe Duffy / Ray D'Arcy loyal following.

fergus1001 · 07-08-2018 3:41pm

When you know, you know, you know?

J. Smith · 07-08-2018 3:41pm

If I said it, I said it.

Atoms for Peace · 07-08-2018 3:42pm

Much prefer non romantic love myself.

Fr_Dougal · 07-08-2018 3:49pm

It is what it is.

K.Flyer · 07-08-2018 3:50pm

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

It is what it is.

Sure it is, to be sure!

valoren · 07-08-2018 3:50pm

It's a more romantic variation of the phrase "You'll do"

J. Smith · 07-08-2018 3:53pm

valoren wrote: »

It's a more romantic variation of the phrase "You'll do"

If it's a more romantic variation of the phrase "You'll do"– it's a more romantic variation of the phrase "You'll do".

Virtanen · 07-08-2018 3:53pm

"It's always in the last place you look"

Of course it is, you're not going to keep looking after you've found it, are you? :rolleyes:

Muahahaha · 07-08-2018 3:57pm

Virtanen wrote: »

"It's always in the last place you look"

Of course it is, you're not going to keep looking after you've found it, are you? :rolleyes:

Or "where did you last see it?". If I feckin knew that it wouldnt be lost in the first place :rolleyes:

Sonics2k · 07-08-2018 4:00pm

"It's always in the last place you look"

Who the hell keeps looking? Of course it's in the last damn place.

Virtanen · 07-08-2018 4:02pm

Echo echo echo...

Katgurl · 07-08-2018 4:22pm

I just read that post you referenced op. The smugness was bouncing off the screen.

It's nice to be nice it's my most despised catchphrase.

freshpopcorn · 07-08-2018 4:25pm

Out of a lot of phrases it doesn't really bother me unless people use it after only a few days of being together.

Witchie · 07-08-2018 4:29pm

I used it at about 4am in a casino in my town. I had been standing watching the roulette table for about 10 minutes then decided to play. Lumped a tenner on some numbers and won €150. An old Chinese guy had been standing, notebook and pen in hand, trying to calculate the odds and failing on every bet. He looked at me and said "how did you do that?"

"When you know, you know" says I and sauntered off to cash in my winnings.

fergus1001 · 07-08-2018 8:28pm

what will be, will be

Donald Trump · 07-08-2018 8:29pm

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

It is what it is.

This is it

Donald Trump · 07-08-2018 8:29pm

fergus1001 wrote: »

what will be, will be

Que sera sera

Pamela Landy · 07-08-2018 8:33pm

"We have a robust policy <something> going forward."

07-08-2018 8:41pm

At the end of the day, it is what it is. You know yourself, when you know you know. No word of a lie.

07-08-2018 8:44pm

Sure look

07-08-2018 8:46pm

They didn't lick it off a stone but the apple doesn't fall far from the tree either.

Yer Da sells Avon · 07-08-2018 8:50pm

We are where we are.

jimgoose · 07-08-2018 8:51pm

Virtanen wrote: »

Echo echo echo...

...echo P'TANG zoom-boing.

07-08-2018 8:52pm

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

We are where we are.

And that's what it's all about, at the end of the day.

J. Smith · 07-08-2018 9:49pm

Candie wrote: »

And that's what it's all about, at the end of the day.

And if that's what it's all about, at the end of the day – that's what it's all about, at the end of the day.

ginandtonicsky · 07-08-2018 9:50pm

Ah here

Are Am Eye · 07-08-2018 9:53pm

"I know"
Cybil Fawlty, 1979.

GMSA · 07-08-2018 10:06pm

What's for you won't pass you.

Chancer3001 · 07-08-2018 10:08pm

Look obviously like ya have to go with your gut.

Follow your intuition.

When you know you'll know

And when you see it, you'll know.

Can't explain it til you feel it.

What s for you won t pass you.

And Look, sure if it's meant to be it'll be

"when you know, you know"

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