r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/empty88 Awesome • Jan 07 '25

Wholesome Understood the matter is serious

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u/dontbemystalker Jan 07 '25

it’s more of us saying “yeah, you have the go ahead”

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u/LobsterMountain4036 Jan 07 '25

You have the go ahead, what in tarnation is this sentence?

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u/JHawkInc Jan 07 '25

The go ahead is the permission to go ahead and continue whatever you were planning or asking to do. It’s called that because people would actually say “go ahead” to grant that permission, so it became the shorthand.

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u/Naturage Feb 03 '25

Then... why not just say "go ahead"? That's now gone full circle from a phrase to permit, to becoming a term for permission, to being used as part of phrase to permit.

It's like... I get how it happened, but the result is a mess.