Idiom
where's the beef
Meaning
Where is the content? So what?
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Your plan sounds nice, but where's the beef?”
“The presentation was full of fancy charts, but I still asked, where's the beef?”
“While the politician spoke for an hour about his vision, the skeptical audience kept wondering where the beef was.”
Examples
simple
“Your plan sounds nice, but where's the beef?”
contextual
“The presentation was full of fancy charts, but I still asked, where's the beef?”
complex
“While the politician spoke for an hour about his vision, the skeptical audience kept wondering where the beef was.”
Origin
From a catchphrase in a 1980s television commercial for the fast food chain Wendy's.
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