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nobody home
The person being discussed is mentally impaired and so cannot understand, as in When the woman did not answer, he concluded it was a case of nobody home . Both usages transfer the absence of someone in a dwelling to absent-mindedness or mental deficiency, and are thought to have been invented by cartoonist and journalist Thomas Aloysius Dorgan (鈥淭AD鈥) around 1900. He often embellished his column with such punning amplifications as 鈥淣obody home but the telephone and that's in the hands of the receiver,鈥 or 鈥淣obody home but the oyster and that's in the stew.鈥
No one is paying attention, as in She threw the ball right past him, yelling 鈥淣obody home!鈥
Example Sentences
鈥淲hat people don鈥檛 realize is that penis size does not matter, because the top two-thirds of the vagina has no nerve endings, there鈥檚 nobody home up there,鈥 Johanson said to a roar of audience approval.
Some scholars claim that LLMs develop knowledge about the world, but most experts say otherwise 鈥 that while these technologies write coherently, there鈥檚 nobody home.
More complex rounds include: 鈥淥h How Lovely Is the Evening,鈥 鈥淒ona Nobis Pacem,鈥 鈥淗ey, Ho, Nobody Home,鈥 which is in minor, and 鈥淰iva la Musica,鈥 a 16th century round written by the Renaissance composer Giovanni Palestrina.
鈥淲hen ads calling for genocide in Ethiopia repeatedly get through Facebook鈥檚 net 鈥 even after the issue is flagged with Facebook 鈥 there鈥檚 only one possible conclusion: there鈥檚 nobody home,鈥 said Rosa Curling, director of Foxglove, a London-based legal nonprofit that partnered with Global Witness in its investigation.
Any second they might peek through the window of our house, see nobody home, and realize what happened.
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