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What's the hurry?
Meaning
- A gentle rebuke used to slow someone down who is rushing unnecessarily. It encourages patience and a more relaxed pace of life.
Relaxed, soothing
Used in a sentence
- We have an hour until the show starts, what's the hurry?
- I saw her sprinting through the airport terminal and asked, what's the hurry?
- The host pulled me into a chair and asked, what's the hurry, stay for another drink.
The backstory
Deeply rooted in the American cultural ideal of relaxed living and Southern hospitality. It is the verbal equivalent of telling someone to take a breath.
Heard in
The South
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