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"Something for the weekend" nghĩa là gì?
24 Dec, 2023
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"Something for the weekend" = thứ dành cho cuối tuần -> (tiếng lóng thời xưa) nghĩa là bao cao su đấy ạ. Cụm từ này xuất phát từ một câu hỏi "tế nhị" mà các thợ cắt tóc thường hỏi khách hàng của mình. Ở nước Anh, thợ cắt tóc hay bán mặt hàng này. Mỗi khi có khách đến cắt tóc, họ thường hỏi: "Would you like something for the weekend?".
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'Something for the weekend, sir?' he would enquire (hỏi thăm). I asked my father what it meant as we left the shop one Saturday. He reddened (đỏ mặt) and dismissed my enquiry. 'Something you don't need to know about,' he told me. 'And don't go asking your mother.'
When they had finished your haircut and were moving towards the till (ngăn kéo để tiền), they would lean over, pull a display box from behind a row of hair potions (thuốc mọc tóc) on the shelf, finger the box which you then saw contained condoms – normally Durex in those days – and ask, “Something for the weekend, Sir?" – even if it was only Monday!
And not only because she'd got hooked (cuốn hút) on the Fifty Shades books and kept on wanting me to act out the scenes either. Listen, I'm not complaining (phàn nàn) but she had got so demanding I'd had to score black market Viagra just to keep up with her. Funny enough, my local barber (thợ cắt tóc) supplies 'em at a cockle a pop. It used to be 'Something for the weekend, sir?', now it's something for the weak end...
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