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Posted by: Demio ( )
Date: January 10, 2018 04:00PM

This has very little with moronism to do. But I am not a native english speaker and I wonder what "People try to win your breakfast and pass the sugar" means?

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Posted by: ificouldhietokolob ( )
Date: January 10, 2018 04:05PM

Never heard it before.
Google apparently hasn't, either.

Where did you hear it?

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Posted by: Demio ( )
Date: January 10, 2018 05:46PM

Hi! I found it on another forum where they discussed how life was before internet. Many years old thread.

A guy wrote that he felt today that it only took a couple of minutes online everyday to notice that people where there to steal his breakfast and pass the sugar. Maybe he feel that there is bad energy stealing away a good start of the day?

The passing of the sugar I do not understad.. Sugar is not nourishing like a good breakfast?

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Posted by: Done & Done ( )
Date: January 10, 2018 06:07PM

It means someone is not that good with words. Being that vague is only of value when congressmen testify in hearings or a Mormon "prophet" speaks.

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Posted by: nevermojohn ( )
Date: January 10, 2018 06:23PM

Native speaker of English who has never heard this phrase.

I almost wonder if it isn't an English phrase, but a phrase from a foreign language directly translated into English.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: January 10, 2018 06:31PM

That makes some sense...

"Le ganaron hasta su desayuno y luego pidieron que les pasara el azucar..."

The tenor of that phrase is derogatory, talking about someone who'd been taken advantage of, or tricked out of stuff:

"They even won his breakfast and then asked him to pass the sugar."

But sufficient familiarity would have caused "won" to be replaced by a different verb. I say hand nevermoJohn the first place trophy!

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Posted by: Demio ( )
Date: January 10, 2018 07:17PM

Awesome response! Now things got much more clearer. Now the statement got another meaning. Thank you for your collective effort.

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Posted by: Babyloncansuckit ( )
Date: January 11, 2018 10:24AM

Well, shit fire and save the matches!

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Posted by: Done & Done ( )
Date: January 10, 2018 07:11PM

Ahora si. Tiene sentido.

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: January 11, 2018 11:15AM

Makes no sense to me. Never heard it.

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