Talk:copious free time

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RFD discussion: July–October 2018

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copious free time

Sum of parts. Copious + free time. Sarcasm doesn't equate with idiomaticity. ---> Tooironic (talk) 14:54, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

The definition seems slightly different from the SoP interpretation. This phrase puts me in mind of real soon now, maybe because they are both sort of SoP, or maybe because they are things that nerds who wrote RFCs are likely to say. Equinox ◑ 03:07, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

I see nothing in this other than sarcastic use, which could equally well be applied to any similar phrase such as "vast amounts of free time", "endless spare time", or whatever else anyone cares to come up with. Mihia (talk) 13:56, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Delete. It's either spoken in earnest (which is directly SoP), or in sarcasm, which is just an ironical use of SoP. --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 16:42, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

To me it seems like an idiom...? Gryllida 01:46, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Delete. I think this started with Tom Lehrer's remarks introducing the song "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier" on An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer. I think he was trying to make fun of the low-brow language used by the officers he served under in the US Army by paraphrasing what they said in incongruously high-brow terms. The phrase sounded rather odd, so other people used it when they wanted a similar effect. I don't think that makes it a lexical unit, any more than quotes like "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard" (in imitation of Groucho Marx) are. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:16, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Delete as SoP. — SGconlaw (talk) 03:40, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Deleted. — SGconlaw (talk) 19:19, 20 October 2018 (UTC)