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touch grass

v.

v. a modern, informal phrase used to tell someone to go outside and get off the internet. It suggests that they are spending too much time online and have lost touch with reality.

v. to reconnect with the physical world, implying one has spent too much time online and lost perspective. An informal, often pejorative, imperative phrase common in internet culture.


SIMPLE

You argue with strangers online all day; you should touch grass.

CONTEXTUAL

After his ten-page analysis of the movie trailer, his friend finally told him he needed to touch grass.

COMPLEX

The recurring imperative to 'touch grass' illustrates a cultural anxiety about digital detachment and the perceived loss of a tangible connection to the physical world.

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