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> What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? What does this mean? I don’t see a reference to tea in the comment you are replying to.
by oceliker 4y ago
> What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
What does this mean? I don’t see a reference to tea in the comment you are replying to.
- jemmyw 4y agoIt's a common expression https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_that_got_to_do_with_the...%3F https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_that_got_to_do_with...
- gadflyinyoureye 4y agoIt’s not so common any more. I bet less than 5% of gen Z know it.
- oceliker 4y agoI’m a millennial living in US (although non native English speaker) and had no idea.
- officialjunk 4y agoi've never heard of it.
- dinkumthinkum 4y agoThere are many things it seems GenZ is unaware of but it is very much a common, well-known expression for more serious people.
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoDoes more serious equal older? I’m already too serious!
- datavirtue 4y agoI know quite a few teenagers who are far more serious than my middle-aged self.
- jemmyw 4y agoIt's an uncommon expression then. The commenter might be British. Anyway, anyone reading this thread knows it now. I recently met someone who uses the expression "country mile" all the time. Hadn't heard it before but it's cool. "That's more popular by a country mile" Country miles are obviously better than city miles. So now I'll probably end up using it.
- weard_beard 4y agoA country mile is often hot and dusty and walked uphill both ways by your grandpa. Time stands still and the cicadas buzz. It’s bigger than a city mile even in how much imagination it takes to conjure.
- easton 4y agoIt’s a euphemism for a nonsequitor, OP is asking what balloon size has to do with it being okay to shoot it down since there’s nothing about size in protected airspace laws. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/price_of_tea_in_China https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/price_of_tea_in_China
- vikramkr 4y agoMaybe would have been clearer to use a nonseqiotor that doesn't involve China- for a second there I thought that there was something linking these balloons to tea trade or sanctions or something
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- garyrob 4y agoMy mother used to say that all the time!
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