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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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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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Do a mouse a favour….

Mice dont like cats….so do a mouse a four and eat a pussy
Guy 1: “Man my misses and I have been fighting she wants me to eat her pussy…?”
Guy 2: well mate, sounds like you better go do a mouse a favour…..and eat a pussy!”
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Do a Michael

Doing a Michael is to too drink far too much on an empty stomach, end up passed out in front of a bar entrance and be hounded by strangers.
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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.
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What is does do

Cool cool, what is does do?
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do the durp

To do the durp is when you all of a sudden brake out having retarded like dance moves which is drived from twitching. Caution when you see someone about to brake out about to do the durp you may want to back up a few steps from excessive body flailing. Note you may need to keep a neck brace on hand just in case of injuries which may occur.
Courtney was driving down the road and all of a sudden broke out do the durp and tragically crashed.
by Nat>not nathan November 30, 2011
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