this is someone
English
Phrase
(deprecated template usage) this is someone
- (MLE) This is what (the named person) said or did; used in recounting events, etc.
- So I get home at two in the morning, right, and this is my mum: "where do you think you've been all night?"
See also
References
- Jenny Cheshire and Sue Fox, This is me/this is him: The quotative system of London adolescents (Queen Mary, University of London, UK; presented at NWAV 36, University of Pennsylvania, October 2007) [1]