The correct term is, “hear, hear!” It is an abbreviation for “hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!”
Of course, if the speaker is actually asking a question, such as “and just where do you think we should open the new strip club?” it’s not hard to imagine that at least one yahoo in attendance might yell, “here, here!” But this would be the exception that proves the rule.
The Duke 1 almost 15 years ago
And NEXT week we can invent the nuclear bazooka!
wndrwrthg almost 15 years ago
Soccer is next on the list.
Anthony Moats Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Tsk. The expression is “Hear. Hear.”
DesultoryPhillipic almost 15 years ago
Are you sure it’s not “Hear, here”?
Jml58 almost 15 years ago
Or “beer, beer”.
rshive almost 15 years ago
Guess that fire’s already been spoken for.
wicky almost 15 years ago
“Here,here” expression soon to be replaced by “there, there”.
krusher2 almost 15 years ago
I found this online:
The correct term is, “hear, hear!” It is an abbreviation for “hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!”
Of course, if the speaker is actually asking a question, such as “and just where do you think we should open the new strip club?” it’s not hard to imagine that at least one yahoo in attendance might yell, “here, here!” But this would be the exception that proves the rule.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1489/why-do-people-say-hear-hear
Wildmustang1262 almost 15 years ago
How’s about saying “where, where?”
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 15 years ago
ok, queue the music from ‘2001, a space odyssey’
funnyman00 almost 15 years ago
and yet the ants have binoculars
briankblough almost 15 years ago
The birth of Golf!
Smiley Rmom almost 15 years ago
But don’t their clubs look more like baseball bats?
wtheurer6423 almost 15 years ago
It’s “hear, hear”, not “here, here”.