money 31 Things Americans Say That Confuse The Hell Out Of Non-Americans, Like They Literally Have No Idea What We Mean
Hi...again.
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Today we'll be looking at things that make non-Americans say "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!"
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what do americans mean when they say something is 4 blocks away??like what is blocks?
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What do Americans mean when they say something is corny ??
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What do americans mean when they speak of "living in the projects"??? What is a project???
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What do Americans mean by “cider”? We will never know
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what do americans mean when they say "downtown"
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What do americans mean when they say drive stick? Like drive a manual car? Why do so many not know how to drive a manual car??????????????????
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What do Americans mean in tv/films when they sexily say, "I'm just going to... freshen up 😏" Are they washing their nethers or what?
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what do Americans mean when they describe certain things as tasting like 'birthday cake flavour'😂
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I know 85 is a good temp for the pool, but what do Americans mean when they say it's 85 outside? Is it cold, is out warm, is it hot? Idk
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what do americans mean by peanut butter and jelly sandwich? is jelly jam? cause that sounds disgusting
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What do Americans mean when they say 401K?
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what do americans mean when they put creamer in their coffee. do they have milk?
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WAIT what do Americans mean when they say they’ve got to go pay their taxes ?? Are your taxes not automatically taken out of the money you earned before it even hits your bank acc
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Stupid question but what do Americans mean when they talk about a "sharpie"? Seen it mentioned in several tweets but no idea. Is it a pencil? A biro?
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WHAT DO AMERICANS MEAN WHEN A SHOW IS ON AT 8/7c.. WHAT EVEN IS THAT??
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Genuine question: What do Americans mean when they say "sending you love & light"? Like what even is light & what does it do?? 🤔
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@KristinBoymom What do Americans mean by 'pie'? Apple pie? Chicken, leak, and bacon suet pie?
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what do americans mean when they say “transfer to a 4 year school”? i thought all universities there are 4 years
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What do Americans mean when they say "bite me"?Are they vampires?
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@_Yumekii_ what do americans mean with 'grounded'? 😔
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What do Americans mean by 2.5 baths?
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What do americans mean when they say dive bar? Is our equivalent just a pub?
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what do americans mean when they say ivy league?
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What do Americans mean when they say Horse back riding??Can they ride other parts of horse's anatomy?
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What do Americans mean when they say biscuit? Is it a bread roll, a scone, something else?
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What do Americans mean when they say "running errands"? This has always baffled me.
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What do Americans mean when they say "spunky"? #someonepleasetellme
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What do Americans mean when they say "finals"?
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What do Americans mean when they say "I'm just sayin'"? I hear it a lot on podcasts.
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what does it mean when americans have words in phone numbers like how do u call a word
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What does it mean when Americans say “we lost an hour, it’s daylight saving”
Ciao ciao!
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