simples

Etymology

See simple. As an interjection, “Simples!”, a humorous alteration of “Simple!”, was popularised as the broken-English catchphrase of a meerkat character in an advertising campaign for price comparison website comparethemarket.com.

intj

  1. (UK, slang, humorous) Indicating that something is easy to do or to understand.
    There is no potential for takeover of the state of Pakistan by a rag-tag bunch of trumped-up nobodies with battered guns, and therefore no threat to the west. simples! April 14 2009, jamie powell, “Re: Satellite dish acquires wrong 'bird'”, in uk.tech.digital-tv (Usenet)
    So you claim. So, put whatcha got on the table, or STFU. ¶ Simples. 2010 March 25, Mike Jones, "Re: And Jeremiah The Prophet Said:", in alt.talk.creationism and other newsgroups, Usenet
    Look, the vast majority of F1 viewers don't have HD TV. There for the numbers don't add up. When they do, you will have your HD TV. Simples. August 10 2010, AC, “Re: HD coverage of the Nascar Race and Indy car races makes the F1 coverage look like Crap”, in rec.autos.sport.f1 (Usenet)
    Controversial plans to replace appointed peers with elected senators, longed for by the Lib Dems, were seemingly given a new berth among the leftovers of Sam Cam's veg box. Simples! August 4 2013, Matthew Bell, “It's a very good 17 days to bury bad news”, in The Independent, London
    Most things will go through on the nod. Simples. Everything will be fixed by Christmas. July 4 2016, John Crace, “Up really is down on Mummy Leadsom's amazing journey”, in The Guardian, London
    Finally, the right hon. Gentleman talked about uncertainty: the uncertainty of not having the arrangements in place. If he wants to end uncertainty and if he wants to deal with the issues he raised in his response to my statement, then he should vote for a deal—simples. 26 February 2019, Theresa May, “Leaving the European Union”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 173
    So, here's a bit of advice that I am sure she will not take: simply redeploy the lot of them, merge Network Rail with the train operators, call it British Railways, give it a set budget, and then let Andrew Haines and his colleagues get on with it. Simples. September 21 2022, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 45

noun

  1. plural of simple

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of simple

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