A caller says her relative always used an interjection that sounds like sigh for the equivalent of “Are you paying attention?” The hosts suspect it’s related to s’I, a contraction of says I. This expression open appears in Mark Twain’s work, among...
le sigh n.— «For the love of all that’s holy, please stop talking and end this movie. Whoa, there’s Jude without his kit! A little post-nooky bed-lounging. Le sigh.» —“Put a Stocking in It” by Ann Hornaday Washington Post Dec. 7, 2006. (source:...
