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Do you catch my drift

The earliest quotation in the Oxford English Dictionary for this sense of "drift" is dated 1526: "Harde it is . . . to perceyue the processe and dryfte of this treatyse."
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The speaker may be having trouble communicating with their audience and not knowing how to better explain.

This is similar to "do you feel me?" or "do you get it?".

Otherwise there is a certain mentality and a certain consciousness along with what the speaker & the audience are generally known to understand.
Bugsy says to his cohorts in crime "I took care of it. Do you catch my drift?".
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What do you want, a cookie?

A sarcastic retort you use on someone when they tell you something you don't give two flying fadoodles about.
Random Facebook person: This is my first (insert completely random item here) of the year!!!!!!

Someone else: What do you want, a cookie?
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Do you feel like a hero yet?

Is a gut punching question, if asked at the right conditions.
"Well done, You did something that the Storm couldn't,
Destroyed the damned 33rd....
Do you feel like a hero yet?"
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I'm thinking I have the biggest crush on someone cant tell him his friends know constantly get shipped with him and well yeah hope he likes me back please say he does because I like him to the moon and back so yeah rizz I'm not quit a Jesus 'm more of an apostle I cant turn water into wine but I can turn you into mine well bye
do you know what I'm thinking the word is differed you know now so yeah
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Do you want to come over for a cuppa

How Brits ask if you want to come round for tea, like actual tea with tea and scones and jam and stuff
Richard: do you want to come over for a cuppa?
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What do you mean

Letting them know you are about to slap the shit out of them so they can take back what they just said
Jack: “I think Games of Thrones Season 8 was actually decent.”
Bill: “Wait what do you mean?”
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