Hit on
State
State verb - To convey in appropriate or telling terms.
Both terms in one sentence
- All this went together with a Jingle that was often as well produced and catchy as a pop hit on the radio; state-of-the-art animation often came into play as well.
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In one of her standup acts, Margaret Cho once joked that an advantage to being of Asian descent in the United States while going out to bars was that, when getting hit on by a guy in whom you are totally uninterested, you can state in You No Take Candle that you don't speak English.
Source: You No Take Candle - In Super Troopers, a Spurbury cop named Ursula gets hit on by a Vermont state trooper named Foster by calling her a "Charlie's Angel" (she remotely looks like Farrah Fawcett by virtue of being blonde).
Source: Never Heard That One Before
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