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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."
Found on "Phrases dot org"

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?".
by Hare Krsna Gardening December 26, 2022
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do it.

your immediate reply to the question " should i kill myself ? " to anyone that asks it.
steve stevenson : should i kill myself?
john johnson : do it.
by p194562 October 10, 2019
mugGet the do it.mug.

Just doing it because I'm doing it

Nope! Nope rat faced coachrach. You look like more of a pedophile than I do asmond. If you held up a picture of ME and you held up a picture of you and you ask people who didn't know either of us... Who would the picture out as a pedophile? You. You know it's you.
Hym "And you're just doing it because I'm doing it you freak. You decided to hop on the bandwagon which means I'd better give the rotmaxxing girl a call after I get out of here because that is clearly what is happening THERE isn't it?
by Hym Iam July 1, 2025
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Doing The Dave

The act of inviting a woman out for a drink, paying for the couple of drinks that she drank. And then asking the next day for her to Venmo you for the two drinks that you paid for.
Please don’t tell me that after the fact you’re going to text your date from the night before and ask for her share of the bill. You can’t possibly be doing the Dave
by the man who gets the bat August 3, 2021
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do it to yourself

do it to yourself- peeling a carrot beating meat like it owe you money

been doing it to myself since 97
Rodger was mad about his girl fronting so he just did it to himself and busted in her shampoo

Harry did it to himself and was caught by his sister she screamed and told him he was going to hell.
by m@rs September 19, 2022
mugGet the do it to yourselfmug.

Do you need that?

When someone’s mad at you, it’s so bad you want to put your hands on them.
Instead of saying “do you want to fight?” You sayDO YOU NEED THAT?”
by SinfulAriesQueen July 22, 2025
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sensha-do

Sensha-dō (戦車道), also known as Tankery, Tankwondo or Panzerkraft, is the fictional martial art of Girls und Panzer. Sensha-dō is a sport where girls drive tanks and fight each other in mock battles.

Sensha-dō is conducted like a team sport, where a group of girls drive a certain number of tanks organized into a team and fight an opposing team on a field previously chose and whose dimensions and terrain can vary from one match to another. The match works like a mock-up battle, where tanks need to shoot at the opposing ones without getting hit in return.

(see GuP fandom wiki for more info)
I can't believe Miho won the Sensha-do World Cup!
by Spamey December 22, 2024
mugGet the sensha-domug.

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