Be There or Be Square In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "Be There or Be Square", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Tommy Tran calendar 2021-03-29 11:03

Meaning of Be There or Be Square

Be There or Be Square humorous

Used humorously to encourage someone to attend a certain event, and if they don't attend they will be considered boring.

Come on, there will be a lot of fun at the party! Be there or be square!

A: Will you come to my birthday party? B: I don't know for sure. I'll give you a call later. A: Okay! Be there or be square!

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give it some welly

Act with more effort or enthusiasm

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To try to achieve something or succeed in honour of somebody

put a rocket under (someone or something)

To motivate someone to do something better, more quickly or more passionately

Origin of Be There or Be Square

This phrase dated from around the 1950s. It appears to derive from the slang word square which means "a person who is boring and out of touch with current trends."

Furthermore, the word square was used to describe someone who didn't appreciate jazz music around the time jazz became popular in the 1940s.

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