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2021-0510
1900s | 2000s | b. 1959 | Canada | Canadian | Comedian | comedy | outdated idioms | Quebec City

Man alive!

Norm Macdonald

Norm MacDonald1 was known for many things, including using old‐timey references we all had to look up on the internet to figure out. This includes ​“Man alive2,” which I heard him say on Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Apparently, it means:

An expression of surprise, shock, or astonishment.

  • Man alive, the bill for that dinner was nearly $200!
  • Are you all right? Man alive, it’s lucky we weren’t killed in that accident!

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  1. “Norm Macdonald.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Sept. 2022, en​.wikipedia​.org/​w​i​k​i​/​N​o​r​m​_​M​a​c​d​o​n​ald. Accessed 27 Sept. 2022. ↩

  2. “man alive.” Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. 2015. Farlex, Inc 27 Sep. 2022 https://​idioms​.thefreedictionary​.com/​m​a​n​+​a​l​ive ↩

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