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"there can only be one"  

Commonly misquoted reference to the Highlander movies and TV series. The actual line is "There can BE ONLY one."
Wrong: "There can ONLY BE one" Highlander?
Right: "There can BE ONLY one" Highlander!

"there can only be one" 

Reference to the Highlander movie and telvision series, where a race of Immortals try to behead each other in single combat for a mystical "prize". Used as a battlecry.
red_mc to red_mc1: I was playing as a red master chief first, "there can only be one" .

"there can only be one" 

A commonplace quote from character Duncan McCloud in the TV series The Highlander which preceded the decapitation of his adversary by use of a sword.
McCloud: "there can only be one"
Nemesis: "No"

McCloud proceeds with a seemingly perfunctory decapitation
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”
Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
Word of the Day on May 23, 2026
well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!
Them future folk took ouare jerbs!
jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005
Word of the Day on May 22, 2026
An Irish phrase meaning shit, derived from ass
(Not to be confused with the literal description of one's buttocks)
"Did you hear the song Aylek$ dropped?"
"Hardly. Her music is absolute cheeks."

"My boyfriend say LaFlame is cheeks."
"Tell your boyfriend I said it's his mixtape that's cheeks."
Cheeks by thecartisan April 26, 2020
Word of the Day on May 21, 2026