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What is stick a fork in it?
to be finished with or tired of, your current activity or situation.
It was 1980 or 81, when I was working for a bank on Long Island, that I said this to my co-worker Bill. The office dress code back then was suit and tie. For fun, I used a plastic fork to secure my tie to my shirt. The real meaning behind this was to indicate that I was tired of the long hours on my current job, and had decided it was time to get a different one, thus Stick a fork in me, I'm done.
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Stick a fork in it - what is it?
When you've been doing something for too long and you don't want to do it anymore.
I had a 10 hour shift at work today. 8 hours in I was like "Stick a fork in me. I'm done".
What does "stick a fork in it" mean?
Indicating a losing or lost cause, with origins in the cooking practice of sticking a fork in meat to determine when done. Also "put a fork in me," "stick a fork in it."
“Let me explain, you're 25 now and will likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in you!”
Stick a fork in it - what does it mean?
Indicating a losing or lost cause, with origins in the cooking practice of sticking a fork in meat to determine when done. Also "put a fork in me," "stick a fork in you."
“Let me explain, you're 25 now and will likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in it!”
Stick a fork in it - meaning
To stick a fork in something means to cease whatever is happening or being said.
Just stick a fork in it, Mike. Or, stick a fork in him, he's done for tonight.
Stick a fork in it - definition
Exhausted, used up, finished. From meat that is fully cooked and ready to be handled with a fork.
That board is toast-stick a fork in it
Stick a fork in it - slang
Meaning that something is definitively finished such that whatever it is doing (or being done to it) should or can be stopped, or considered to be done.
From grilling -- not to test whether something is done, b/c that wouldn't make any sense, given what the phrase means. Instead, to stick a fork in the piece of sufficiently-grilled-meat so as to take it off the grill. Connotations of definitive doneness enhanced by sub-conscious notion that the piece of meat is not only completely cooked, it is no longer reasonably conceived of as part of a living animal, and thus can be stabbed with impunity.
Now that Iraq has descended into chaos, you can stick a fork into Bush's re-election chances.
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Stick a fork in it
1) A state of completion.
2) To be completely destroyed or defeated.
Stick a fork in it, it's done.
Stick a fork in him, he's done.
Stick a fork in it
1. To be done, finshed or over.
v. "Stick a fork in me"
In reference to a piece of meat or sausage, whereby one sticks a fork in it to test if it is properly cooked.
"I'm done. Stick a fork in me. It's been grand!" - Christian Slater, Pump Up The Volume, 1990