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'These distinctions start out as inevitable parts of the story we can make up for ourselves around the concept 'in the weeds' – but as some particular patterns of use become common, certain sets of story lines congeal into 'senses.' ' 'There are many different sorts of reasons why someone could wind up 'in the weeds' as well as different evaluations (perhaps by different people) of the costs and benefits of being there,' Liberman writes. The weeds a harried waiter is in are not good at all. He notes that for policy wonks, being in these weeds is a good thing. Writing in a blog called Language Log, Mark Liberman gives a number of examples from the world of politics – 'deep in the weeds' of this or that scandal. And the phrase is used in other contexts to mean 'in great, even excessive, detail.' In the weeds is often used literally to refer to stray golf balls and such. Wikipedia says in its discussion of diner slang: 'Refers back to chefs' military roots, where being in the weeds would cause your army to be slaughtered.' I'm not sure this is convincing the unnecessary 'refer back' doesn't help make the case either. It's understandable why the phrase in the weeds should mean 'lost.' What's less easy to see is why it refers so specifically to a restaurant.

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It has been characterized by a reviewer on the Internet Movie Database as a 'medium rare' restaurant flick – by which he obviously meant, not well done. 'In the Weeds' was also the title of a 2000 flick starring Joshua Leonard and Molly Ringwald. Be prepared that it could happen to you!'

If you order extra grilled onions or mushrooms, or an extra side, for some reason, it does not make it. One recent post was a cautionary tale on the topic of 'missing sides': 'I know it happens where I work a lot. It's the name of a blog devoted to issues of restaurant service. It's curious that an outdoorsy image should be so closely associated with a line of work that is done mostly inside.īut no doubt about it, in the weeds is restaurant lingo. In the weeds is restaurant slang used to describe a server who is hopelessly behind.Īn online glossary of restaurant terms puts it like this: 'A colloquial expression used when persons are near or beyond their capacity to handle a situation or cannot catch up. And now that I've heard it once, I've been hearing it everywhere. 'Let me know if you end up 'in the weeds,' as they say.'ĭo they indeed say that? I suppose they do. 'Call me if you get really overwhelmed,' I recall one of my editors saying not long ago, as we discussed a project with a tight schedule.

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