"Out out"

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What the hell does this mean? If you go out, you go out. You're out. You don't need to say it twice. (Does this need to go in pedant corner?)

We used to say it when I was at uni in the late 80s. Out was student bar in clothes you'd worn all day. Out Out was the city centre to the clubs. My 20s DC say it still. I thought everyone did.

A ghastly over use of the word 'out' used by commoners.

@Newcrocs that's the perfect definition 😂

It used to be uptown, too

Or going up West End

I miss those days, too. Was such lighthearted fun. I was uptown the other day on a Friday and the pubs were empty - remember when they were chocca after work with all the office staff necking as much as they could before they got the last train home ?

Haha. This is so true. "I went out then we ended up going out out..."

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Thats why his joke was so funny at the time. Nobody had ever pointed it out before but we'd all been saying it our whole lives.

I feel like that about Michael McIntyre's 'mini-sick' bit. 🤣

Yeah this I don't think it's 20 years though Is it?

It is for me, I live a very boring life

Out; early doors, teatime cinema, pizza bowling etc.

Out Out; nice clothes, drinking, glitzy or nightclubs, finishing after midnight. Potentially messy.

Came here to post the Mickey Flanagan sketch.

It was me a few months back. Ended up in a dive of a club with my shopping!

Can't beat a bit of Popworld!

Perfect definition. Will I be home by a reasonable hour or belting out Dancing Queen from the revolving dance floor?

Although out can develop into out out once the rum kicks in.

Anyway, YABU as out out is a really useful definition for diary planning.

I think it’s perfect - just really sums it up well

Our popworld has closed down 😫

There is also home, and home home.

Home home means going back to your family home, whereas home is where you live.

Out out is generally a night out or similar where you spend a longer period of time away from home, out is usually just to the shops or similar.

Big night out , not quiet night out

No it's not. He's taken that joke from normal vernacular in certain areas that had been around for ages . I am from South London and we all used to say "out out" back in the 80s/90s.

"Going out" can mean loads of things from popping up the road for the paper to going out for a coffee to going for a quick drink to popping round a friends.

Going out out is going out on a big night out. Usually involving getting dressed up, staying out til early hours or all night, clubbing, drinking a lot (or other things!).

No, that's popping out 🙂

@RenoDakota haha x

In lockdown I remember saying we’ll go out after lunch. Where are we going? The garden. Things were different then.

One glass of wine after work: out

Getting dressed up for a big club night, meal in posh restaurant, theatre tickets etc: out out

Everyone understands this. Surely.

Correct

Going out for milk is 'popping out'
Going to the pub/cinema/casual dinner is 'going out'
Getting dressed up for a proper night on the town and going clubbing is 'going out out'
Micky Flanagan says it better!

Also Irish and also used it forever.

Out: dinner, cinema, pub, maybe a nice bar. Home by midnight, functional to normal the next day.

Out out: dressed up, very nice cocktail bar, probably dancing (hence I don't do it any more as hate clubs). Home (long) after midnight, dying the next day.

I think Pedants' Corner would love to the richness of the language in this one rather than judgemental OP!

@CharlotteBog years since I heard home home! Probably because I'm old enough now that home is home home and home home is "mum's place". Another great phrase.