Where on earth did this saying come from ?

*I recently read that Prince Louis has "on fleek eyebrows"
and he's only 10 months old!!*

Yes, even the Baby Royals are fodder for the media comments ! I had to look up "on fleek" , but it does in fact describe little Louis' eyebrows , they are perfect !

I recently read that Prince Louis has "on fleek eyebrows"
and he's only 10 months old!!

Someone in a government department is probably spending days finding new phrases and terms to use just to keep the public thinking and wondering. Can't see what was wrong with the English language as it used to be.

I recently read that Prince Louis has "on fleek eyebrows" - it's hard to keep up with the trendy comments these days !

Oh I think woke is American

splinternews.com/how-woke-went-from-black-activist-watchword-to-teen-int-1793853989

And I think a poster has already mentioned that throwing shade is also American in origin

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw_shade

Not that it really matters - Americans speak American not English

The Tracey Ullman link doesn't actually show the clip - the only page I could find that does is here www.dailywire.com/news/32346/watch-comedian-tracy-ullman-mocks-leftists-frank-camp

I live in the middle of USA and never hear these words in the way to which you refer. Shade is still the shadow of a large tree. How could one throw that?For woke- I woke up this morning to find that Trump is still in office and moaned. Please don't blame America for the wrong usage of the words.

Sorry I didn’t edit that last post and there is a lot of gobbledygook in it ! For example Santa was a mistake, it wasn’t a new bit of urban slang ! It should have said shade . Good should have said God. And should’ve said it came from not to come from etc. Must remember to edit instead of just scanning .

Woke most definitely does not come from the PC brigade all the liberal elite Ffs! Like always things like throwing Santa comes from urban , kid slang And it definitely means that being conscious of underwear Just like being awake , in the know , or a bit more pompously in the zeitgeist . Good to use it would laugh if you tell them to come from the PC brigade Most of them wouldn’t know what the PC brigade was ! Don’t judge me but I use it along with “shook”. I want to be up to understand that the younger members of my family are saying so I instruct my husband all the time he doesn’t seem to be getting the hang of it . So we jokingly say “ I’m shook “. But he hasn’t got the woke thing That’s because it actually isn’t’woke’ about these things ?

Throwing shade was used a lot on Ru Paul's drag race and it became a lot more common after that.

I can't keep up!

i just watched DateLine on BBC and had to look up TWO new words.
Kleptocratic
Shellacking

I think that trying to be 'on trend' language wise always sounds stupid when coming from the mouth of a mature person.
Certainly, my AC and GC don't seem to use anything but normal English although the younger ones probably hear it.

youtu.be/T5zgvMnKbPI

I believe it means to criticise, put down, prove wrong. And 'Woke means just that, as in woken up to the truth/reality.

I often turn the tv off when they use urban slang as I lose the thread of the plot when I can't understand what they are talking about. Some modern speech just irritates though. There is a fashion reviewer on the tv who talks about, wearing a trouser, a shoe etc, when did they stop being pairs? What is a price point, what's wrong with price? Why are things now hotting up instead of heating up? I could go on.....

Being 'woke' means that if someone disagrees with you you will scweam and scweam and stamp your feet like Violet Elizabeth Bott.

I find phrases like that suddenly appear and, once they have been spoken they spread like wildfire. No doubt the phrase will be used so often during future Brexit discussions that we will all be sick of hearing it. And eventually it will go out of fashion. Mind you, still waiting for 'kicking the can down the road' to vanish. DH and i groan every time we hear it.

I'm not going to bother either, Nonnie. It'll all change again by next month, anyway.

I so love the English spoken post Victorian but pre 1950s.... Give me that any day....sighs

Jalima

Elrel I think you might be nearly as behind the times as me. I haven't yet accepted that gay doesn't mean bright and happy so no hope for me. I'm not even going to try to keep up.

I had a further look and found this , who would have believed it ?
The term "throwing shade" comes from black and Latino gay communities. The term's first significant step into straight culture was in the 1990 documentary about young, black, and Latino drag queens in New York City, "Paris is Burning."

Jalima1108 it came from a headline on a newsfeed.

Yup. People who self describe as "woke" bark "get woke" at people who question or disagree with them rather than forming a cohesive reply or arguments.
Most support JC and think that ANY discussion around gender issues is transphobic

"being fashionably pc & very left wing etc" so making a big public show of being ""conscious of the situation and awake to what is going on" with a touch of that other buzz-word "virtue signalling" around the left-wing-ness?