To ask what the phrase take care

Meatshake · 23/01/2021 22:49

"goodbye, might not see you for a while because we aren't close but I think you're alright".

See also "mind how you go'.

This is pretty much how I've always used it too.

Norwayreally · 23/01/2021 23:05

Look after yourself. It’s very common in Yorkshire so I’m used to lots of people saying this. It doesn’t have a hidden meaning if that’s what you mean.

Bunnybigears · 23/01/2021 23:05

I think its just a goodbye, skme people will say it to everyone just instead of goodbye some people will say it to friends or family but not to everybody. My Dad says it to everyone, in fact I dont think I've ever heard him say goodbye

BackforGood · 23/01/2021 23:08

'Look after yourself'

I'm inclined to say it
a) at the end of a phone conversation with an elderly friend or relation
b) to someone I love and am not going to see for a while
c) If someone is going out of where we are (might be my house, or a meeting, or a social gathering) into the dark, or wind or rain or ice, or to drive a long way, or anything else that might be slightly riskier than leaving on a sunny afternoon to arrive home 3 seconds later .

Why?

MumOfPsuedoAdult · 23/01/2021 23:10

at the moment? 'Hope you don't get Covid' (sorry)

Glitterblue · 23/01/2021 23:11

@BackforGood

'Look after yourself'

I'm inclined to say it
a) at the end of a phone conversation with an elderly friend or relation
b) to someone I love and am not going to see for a while
c) If someone is going out of where we are (might be my house, or a meeting, or a social gathering) into the dark, or wind or rain or ice, or to drive a long way, or anything else that might be slightly riskier than leaving on a sunny afternoon to arrive home 3 seconds later .

Why?

Exactly these reasons.

VettiyaIruken · 23/01/2021 23:14

It's a way to close a conversation.
I'll let you go now
See you later
Must grab a coffee sometime
Take care

They don't really mean much in themselves, they're just socially acceptable ways to end an interaction imo

lovelilies · 23/01/2021 23:16

Oooh I'm the only one so far who sees it as totally PA then?
It's basically a polite fuck off IMO

AliMonkey · 23/01/2021 23:16

I’d usually use it to someone I cared about as a goodbye if I’m not going to speak to them for at least a few days - but that could be anyone from my mum to a colleague I’m friendly with but not close to - have found myself saying it a lot on phone calls this last year I guess because there’s more need to be careful at the moment!

AliMonkey · 23/01/2021 23:17

No definitely not PA. I can’t even imagine saying it in that context.

Bunnybigears · 23/01/2021 23:22

I think the only way you could use it in a passive aggressive way would be to say it it in a really sarcastic way but then that wouldn't even be passive aggressive more just aggressive. But then I'm from Yorkshire and we say 'take care out of habit.

BackforGood · 23/01/2021 23:38

Definitely not PA.

I mean, I know there are MN that seem to go out and look for offence in everything, but there is no way I can imagine 'Take care' being anything other than either being a nice thing to say, or, as BunnyBigEars says, something people just say out of habit.

toocold54 · 23/01/2021 23:41

It's basically a polite fuck off IMO

No way!
It’s not something I say myself but I have work colleagues and friends who say it every time I see them.
It’s just a nicer way of saying bye.
Some people say bye have a nice weekend. Some say bye take care.

I think it’s lovely and I appreciate when people say it to me.

Saz12 · 23/01/2021 23:42

I think it’s become more commonplace of late. I’d read it as “hope you don’t get Covid nor suffer cabin fever” just now.
Kinda like “we’e living in strange times, mind yourself”.

TwilledSilesia · 23/01/2021 23:43

@lovelilies

Oooh I'm the only one so far who sees it as totally PA then? It's basically a polite fuck off IMO

I think this is a pretty niche interpretation....

ElizaLaLa · 23/01/2021 23:44

Why?

Are you the poster that agonisingly picks apart what a friend has said to you?

That you've been banned for many times?

SueEllenMishke · 23/01/2021 23:47

Definitely not PA. it's just a turn of phrase - a different way of saying goodbye or look after yourself.

Some people really will look for offence in everything!!

NameChange84 · 23/01/2021 23:48

Definitely not a fuck off.

A lovely relative killed herself last year and it was the last thing she text me. It was her way of letting me know she hoped I’d be ok and she cared for me.

Canyoncall · 23/01/2021 23:49

I think it’s northern and is a genuine “take care of yourself” (adaptable to any context) I use often and sincerely- now doubting how it comes across

Chimeraforce · 23/01/2021 23:50

Don't die as I'd miss you. I love and/or need you.

Sittingonabench · 23/01/2021 23:54

It’s an acknowledgement that things are difficult or risky and that the person cares for your well-being. Precovid would use it in relation to driving in the snow, someone who’s not well or is under pressure from family illness or bereavement.

Sh05 · 23/01/2021 23:58

I use it with people I know I'm not going to see again for some time or with elderly people who live in the neighborhood but we're only on a wave and hello stage.