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watwut
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Show HN: Just Launched an App for Dads
> If you’re a father and have never experienced any of that then bully for you
I guess this was autocorrect, did you mean "good" or something else?
farleykr
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Bully for you is just a figure of speech that means ‘good for you’ with a touch of irony. Got it from the Ron Swanson character in Parks and Rec.
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Ah, thank you.
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"Bully for you" is an idiom that basically means "good for you"
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Bully+for+you
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technothrasher
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Bully as an adjective means "good". It's mostly archaic at this point, but you do still hear people use the idiom "bully for you" occasionally. Theodore Roosevelt liked to use the adjective, and he is where the term "bully pulpit" came from.
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I guess this was autocorrect, did you mean "good" or something else?