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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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Do I know you?

What you say when someone awkwardly approaches you
“Hey are you that kid who pops into biology and then leaves?”

I’m sorry… Do I know you?”
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You just gotta like, do the thing; you know?

A speech expression used commonly when someone is unable to remember the thing that they were supposed to do,
or when someone else forgot and you are using the phrase sarcastically.
Person 1: what were we supposed to do again?
Person 2: you just gotta like, do the thing; you know?
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Do you want to play mini games?

A word usually heard from 6 year olds playing gorilla tag.
An idiot: Do you want to play mini games?
A gorilla tag player who has a brain:SHUT UP NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY MINI GAMES.
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Do you need that?

A statement used when someone is provoking you to fight; used with someone you don’t like that is getting on your nerves.
Marley: I really don’t like you
Zakiya: Ho do you need that? (Do you want to fight?)
Marley: oh we can go right now.
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What else do you have in your life?

The only other thing to have is a woman letting you bang her. What else could he theoretically have?
Hym "What else do you have in your life? What else is there to have? Friends? Check. Family? Check. I don't like the effect they have on my life but they're there. Money? When I actually get paid for the work I do, yes. Accomplishments? I'm objectively one of the greatest writers in history of humanity. So, yes again. Hobbies? Yup. Genius intellect? Yessir. Magnificent penis? Obviously. Status? Doesn't exist but if it DID I would have more of it than everyone. Disciples? More than Jesus. Energy? The maximum amount of that. The real thick kind. It's pungent. The only things I DON'T have are women and Adderall and I only don't have them because YOU don't take instructions very well! I don't know if that's some kind of deformity or a malformed lobe or what but- Oh! An unyielding, ceaseless hatred for everything. I have that too! No 6 pack though... But that's fine... And you all definitely can be full of yourselves. I mean, a lot of you seem to think you have 'the right values' and that promotion of these values is commensurate with virtue and that your ability to promulgate these values and the money people through at you is evidentiary of some sort of cosmic deservedness and that you have some sort of responsibility to prevent people from promoting 'the wrong values' and in doing so you are controlling the minds of your viewers. That's your role in society to you. Controlling the people who watch your content by feeding them 'Good, healthy, positive thoughts.' "
by Hym Iam November 7, 2023
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