Meanings
alternative you want a cookie
- rhetoricsarcasticA retort to someone who has done something unsurprising or unimpressive and has deemed it necessary to mention it.
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4 more examples
"I was straight to the point - "Laurie, I'm gay." "Bernard, I've known that for a long time. So, what do you want, a cookie? Now deal the cards!"
1994, R. Jeffrey Ringer, Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and Construction of Homosexuality, →ISBN, page 230DOLL. Buzzet attacked me last night. I have scars! Look at my arm! And my hair is flat too! SPIDER. What do you want a cookie?
2001, Mary Rogers, Drop Your Webbings! (from Class Acts: High School Plays by High School Writers →ISBN by Randy Lee Hartwig), p.30"I wait for ju, five minute," He says. "Well what do you want, a cookie" I tell him and he looks at me like he does not understand."
2004, James H. Taylor, Curiosity Killed the Chelsea Boy, →ISBN, page 153"The way I see it, I'm already doing all the work, and I'm doing the spells and incantations," stated Bowolf. "So what do you want, a cookie?" laughed Prolok.
2006, Antonio Garza, The House with the Magic Cellar: Realm: I, →ISBN, page 103Synonyms: what do you want, a medal
Synonyms & antonyms
phraseA retort to someone who has done something unsurprising or unimpressive and has deemed it necessary to mention it.
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