If I was ever in doubt of the phrase’s currency, an Australian movie shot in 2017 and due to premiere in festivals in 2020 titled We’re Not Here to Fuck Spidershas clinched it. I do have to admit, it’s much more interesting researching the usage of these types of lexical items than whether the scientific name of a certain plant species has changed. As an editor at the dictionary it’s part of my job to investigate words and phrases regardless of their nature. Shock factor aside, with the added ludicrousness of anyone wanting to do anything with spiders, the phrase had me laughing my head off.
Margot Robbie was one of the guests which was an added bonus, and after a snake story (which had my feet off the floor and feeling sorry for her mum), out she rolled with this little purler. I was happily settled in for the night watching the Graham Norton Show (UK) with a glass of wine. I also heard it in the least expected place. All being used to generally meaning ‘well, I’m not here to waste time’. not here to put socks (or shoes) on caterpillars’, and ‘. This grabbed my attention, unlike its more circumspect cousins ‘. This isn’t unusual in itself but this was a phrase which is apparently in fairly common use in Australian slang and has been around for a number of years.Ĭrude Australian sarcasm at its bluntest, ‘. Update: Click here to read why we're still not here to f*ck spiders.Ī couple of months ago I came across a phrase I hadn’t heard before.
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