pleased to see me
- idiom
- NSFW
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contento de verme
- The comedian delivered the classic line, 'Is that a phone in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?'
Examples
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He laughed off the awkward moment by claiming he was just pleased to see me.
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When she noticed his flustered reaction, she teased, 'Are you just pleased to see me?'
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He looked so pleased to see me when I walked in!
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Did she really seem pleased to see me or was it just my imagination?
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The comedian delivered the classic line, 'Is that a phone in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?'
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When she noticed his flustered reaction, she teased, 'Are you just pleased to see me?'
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He laughed off the awkward moment by claiming he was just pleased to see me.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal composition 'pleased to see me' (happy to meet me) is directly derivable from the constituents, but the humorous sexual innuendo (physical bulge indicating arousal) is pragmatic and culture-specific and does not follow from the words' literal meanings. This pragmatic/idiomatic reading requires extra-world knowledge and exposure, so a B1 learner who only knows the component words would not predict it.
Etymology
Pleased to see me comes from a funny question people say: 'Is that a phone in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?' The image is a small bulge in a pocket that suggests someone is physically 'sexually excited', so the line is used to tease someone about being excited when they see another person.