borderline bitter

[maiabulela]

Dear all,

What "borderline bitter" in:

[A: What I'm gonna wear?
B: since she’s wearing the pants, I’d go with a tube top and short shorts.
A: The sarcasm? Borderline bitter.
B: Do you think I'm a bitter?]

A is a guy and he's going on a date and asks B (a girl colleague) about what he should wear.

Thanks a lot.

[Barb_D]

Dear all,

What "borderline bitter" in:

[A: What I'm gonna wear?
B: since she’s wearing the pants, I’d go with a tube top and short shorts.
A: The sarcasm? Borderline bitter.
B: Do you think I'm a bitter?]

A is a guy and he's going on a date and asks B (a girl colleague) about what he should wear.

Thanks a lot.

B's first comment means that she thinks the girl A is going on a date with is controlling the relationship (she is wearing the pants) and her "suggestion" is that he wear girl-type clothes (specifically, rather slutty clothes).

When someone is bitter, they are angry and resentful. A is saying that B is showing her bitterness -- or at least coming very close to sounding like she is bitter by coming right up to the edge, or the border, of bitterness.

[maiabulela]

B's first comment means that she thinks the girl A is going on a date with is controlling the relationship (she is wearing the pants) and her "suggestion" is that he wear girl-type clothes (specifically, rather slutty clothes).

When someone is bitter, they are angry and resentful. A is saying that B is showing her bitterness -- or at least coming very close to sounding like she is bitter by coming right up to the edge, or the border, of bitterness.

like "you seem semi-angri" or "about to be angry"??

[Barb_D]

At least a little angry and resentful.