simples
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]See simple. As an interjection, “Simples!”, a humorous alteration of “Simple!”, was popularised as the broken-English catchphrase of a meerkat character in an advertising campaign for price comparison website comparethemarket.com.
Pronunciation
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Interjection
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- (UK, slang, humorous) Indicating that something is easy to do or to understand.
- 2010 March 25, Mike Jones, "Re: And Jeremiah The Prophet Said:", in alt.talk.creationism and other newsgroups, Usenet:
- So you claim. So, put whatcha got on the table, or STFU. ¶ Simples.
- 2013 August 4, Matthew Bell, “It's a very good 17 days to bury bad news”, in The Independent, London:
- Controversial plans to replace appointed peers with elected senators, longed for by the Lib Dems, were seemingly given a new berth among the leftovers of Sam Cam's veg box. Simples!
- 2016 July 4, John Crace, “Up really is down on Mummy Leadsom's amazing journey”, in The Guardian, London:
- Most things will go through on the nod. Simples. Everything will be fixed by Christmas.
- 2019 February 26, Theresa May, “Leaving the European Union”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons)[3], column 173:
- Finally, the right hon. Gentleman talked about uncertainty: the uncertainty of not having the arrangements in place. If he wants to end uncertainty and if he wants to deal with the issues he raised in his response to my statement, then he should vote for a deal—simples.
- 2022 September 21, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 45:
- So, here's a bit of advice that I am sure she will not take: simply redeploy the lot of them, merge Network Rail with the train operators, call it British Railways, give it a set budget, and then let Andrew Haines and his colleagues get on with it. Simples.
Noun
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Verb
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- third-person singular simple present indicative of simple
Asturian
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Catalan
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French
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Noun
[edit]simples m
German
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Adjective
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Mirandese
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Pronunciation
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[edit]simples m or f (plural simples)
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References
[edit]“simples” in Amadeu Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona Ferreira, Dicionário Mirandês-Português, 1st edition, 2004.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese simplez, from Latin simplex.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: sim‧ples
Adjective
[edit]simples (invariable)
Derived terms
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[edit]simples m pl or f pl
Noun
[edit]simples m pl or f pl
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