What does it mean when someone laughs and goes "Leave&q

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It's happened 2 days in a row. What does it mean when someone laughs and goes "Leave" or "Get out" or "Go". It confuses me.

Without more context, almost impossible to say. Flipping through the mental Rolodex, I think often it has been used to express amusement connected with a need to resume work or return to task, as if to preempt further conversation from becoming a distraction. However, that's just my experience and the most frequent result that I come up with.


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Maybe it's along the lines of "Stop, you're killing me". Meaning they thought you were very very funny.

I know that, but im not sure this was the case, i dont know.

Its a joke.

It means "That joke is so bad, its very lameness makes it funny, but I don't want to hear any more" - kind of the verbal equivalent of the old vaudeville gag when a comic would be in the middle of a pathetically unfunny routine and a big crook (like Little Bo Peep's shepherd staff) would come from the wings and yank them offstage.

Similar to when someone says "Get OUT!" or "Get outta here", to indicate that they can't believe what you just said is true.

You have to give more context, what were they doing when they said it ie. were they laughing/frowning/blankfaced? What were you doing? What had you said to them? Where were you and why were you there?

well i was at school, I wen up to this girl i sometimes talk too, and I went "Can i say something stupid?" "Okay." "Well next to you, the sun is in an iceage." She smiled and then laughed and said that. So I did. It confused me. but i'm not sure she was just saying it was funny.

This happened to me the other day topic

I was in a store, and showed store security a bag I was carrying, and iI said I will be back. They told me the exact same thing and laughed.

Hey, I'm sure she was. Why not go with the positive interpretation?

I stand by my interpretation. She acknowledged that your remark was dumb, just like you promised it would be, but also that it was complimentary. If she had really wanted to brush you off, she'd have rolled her eyes and turned her back on you without saying anything. Or made gagging noises.

That was a super lame come on, but don't let it stop you from trying again. Just don't overdo it.

Thats true.

I would never have thought of it like that but that's a really accurate description. I actually used to say it all the time and I somehow influenced all my friends at the time and they started using it as well. I usually say it when someone's said a joke or pun which is actually quite funny but in a really lame way. I don't know where I picked it up from since I usually pick up my turns of phrase from my friends but this time I was the one who started it... must have been a tv show.

Jacob, from what you've written it sounds like she was using it the same way I do. I think she just thought what you said was lame-funny which, to be fair, it was. So no worries.

I've heard that used as a way of saying, "That's hilarious." "Get out," anyway, not "Leave." That would probably confuse me too.