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Oh, those things that kids everywhere are playing with.

Not just kids. Anyway. What else is a thing? Listen to these examples.

Examples

Using funny GIFs in your message is such a thing.

You know parkour: the sport of running and jumping across buildings? Why is that such a thing?

Organic powdered food. Since when has that been a thing?

A well-known use of this phrase was after American personality Kim Kardashian posted a picture of herself pregnant, with the words “pregnancy lips 怀孕的嘴唇”. 

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It’s a term not many people had heard of, and prompted responses like this: “Pregnancy lips? Is that even a thing?”

当你对别人所描述的一件事情一无所知，或对所描述的事情持怀疑态度的时侯，你就可以说“Is that a thing?”或“Is that even a thing?”。

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But there’s little doubt the phrase ‘a thing’ is itself ‘a thing’ – it’s now been included in major dictionaries.

There we are. A thing. No plans to grow the beard back, then?

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Only when being clean-shaven becomes too much of a thing!

Bye.

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Bye.

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