Talk:surf's up

RFD discussion: August 2017

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surf's up

I'm not entirely convinced this is idiomatic. Seems something more like breakfast's up, time's up than what's up. --WF on Holiday (talk) 15:35, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

I think I would interpret this as "are you ready?" / "get ready!" or something, in general. I'm fairly sure I've seen this being used outside any surfing business but I'll check. W3ird N3rd (talk) 19:34, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Keep It means something like make hay while the sun shines, strike while the iron is hot. DCDuring (talk) 00:47, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

I suppose those things could be said in roughly the same situation. I'll add some sources to the citations page. W3ird N3rd (talk) 02:27, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Done: Citations:surf's_up but only two. https://books.google.nl/books?id=iFG-yFjJ4twC&pg=PA20 might qualify as well but is a bit odd to cite, it's hidden on the citations page for now. W3ird N3rd (talk) 05:01, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Keep. PseudoSkull (talk) 00:56, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Keep concerning the entry, but after the idiomatic definition has been added I may vote differently if there is a new RfD for the first sense. I'm not entirely sure about our policy on SoP definitions when a term already has an entry because of another sense. For clarity that SoP sense (the current sense) should still be kept I guess, at least in cases where it's not blatantly obvious. (Pandora's box does not need a definition saying "any box owned by anyone named Pandora") W3ird N3rd (talk) 02:27, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

I have added the second definition. Doesn't that automatically invalidate this RfD for the entry as a whole because any negative votes so far (apart from WF there are none in this particular case but there could have been) would have been based on the definitions that were available when the RfD started? W3ird N3rd (talk) 19:53, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Keep. Reasonably familiar phrase not necessarily used with respect to actual surf; but even within the context of surf, the meaning may not be readily apparent to people who haven't heard it, and aren't familiar with surfing or seaside jargon. P Aculeius (talk) 22:59, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

• I have never heard of it. An American term? DonnanZ (talk) 23:55, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

@Donnanz I think so. There's even a song named after it: w:Surf's Up (song). W3ird N3rd (talk) 02:12, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

• RFD kept per consensus. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:38, 26 August 2017 (UTC)