Miriam
What does "gas" mean? I'm currently watching Criminal Minds and there's a scene where one guy (Derek Morgan) holds a colleagues (JJ's) baby and says "Look, look, what's he doing? He's smiling at Derek Morgan." His colleagues Garcia and Prentiss glance at each other and say "Gas!" Then JJ looks at their boss Hotchner (who rarely ever smiles) and says "You're smiling!" To which he responds: "Gas!" I found following explanations for the word "gas": something/someone is a gas: used for saying that someone​/​something makes you laugh a lot gas: fun; empty talk; something that gives pleasure So, what does "gas" mean here in this context? Something like "you wish!" , "yeah, right..." or "haha"? Ok, after writing this post I checked how they translated this into German. The dubbed version says "Na, klar." and the subtitles say "Quatsch". Both can be translated as "Yeah, right...". Do you use "gas" in the meaning of "yeah, right". Is it common?
Feb 4, 2021 12:53 PM
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When a person has “gas” they need to burp or fart or ‘pass gas’. Often babies will smile when they fart (pass gas). So the joke hear is that baby is not actually smiling at the person, but actually has to fart. See the humor? So it also implies the older person has to fart as well.
February 9, 2021
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I think they were might be talking about laughing gas in that scenario. Might be...
February 4, 2021
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To say something or someone is a gas, is a very old way of speaking, and is very rarely used. I would think it is a reference to the idea that the baby doesn't actually like him, it just has gas (in the stomach) causing it to smile. The boss is caught smiling, and uses the excuse that he also has gas.
February 4, 2021