Citations:ba dum tss
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English citations of ba dum tss
Interjection: alternative form of ba-dum ching
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- 2011 June 9, Javier González, “Re: "Does Djokovic resemble myself?" Agassi said. "No, he is even better."”, in rec.sport.tennis[1] (Usenet):
- > Agassi's comments do not sound natural -- as if they were translated
> from English into German and then back into English.
Those are just encoding artifacts.
/ba-dum-TSS!
- 2012, Sally Leibovici, "The Big Year" (film review), Salford Student Direct (University of Salford), Issue 14, 27 February 2012, page 5:
- After all he is the greatest bird watcher in the world. He even holds the world record in bird sightings. Ba dum tss!
- 2013, "Report: HipCityVeg Admits Wrongdoing, Hopes To Reopen As 40th Street McDonald's", 34th Street (joke issue), 5 December 2013, page 19:
- At press time, HipCityVeg was buying burgers from McDonald's and making a “healthy” (Ba Dum Tss) profit.
- 2014, "Top Ten Worst Gifts", The Union (Milpitas High School, Milpitas, California), Volume 26, Issue 3, December 2014, page 5:
- 9. The thought. It counts! *ba dum tss*
- 2015, Eleanor Hildebrandt, "The true scourge of Super Bowl XLIX", The Heights (Boston College), Volume 96, Number 6, 5 February 2015, page 97:
- All in all, the column was so weak and bitter that it's probably being served at Dunkin' Donuts (ba dum tss).