impulse

Last week I was writing an email to my friend's wife and discussing something in general, and the topic of shopping came along. With reference to shopping I asked her "btw, how frequently does your impluse kick in" - to which I got a reply back saying "WHAT? No you did not say that right?"

Is "impulse kick in" a slang for something else or is it inappropriate to use it in general.

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Originally Posted by murali1610

Last week I was writing an email to my friend's wife and discussing something in general, and the topic of shopping came along. With reference to shopping I asked her "btw, how frequently does your impluse kick in" - to which I got a reply back saying "WHAT? No you did not say that right?"

Is "impulse kick in" a slang for something else or is it inappropriate to use it in general.

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It does not mean much to me. Did you mean something like, "How often do you buy (something) on impulse?".....?

yes, exactly, I meant "how often do you buy something on impluse". But I want to know is the statement "how frequently does your impulse kick in" mean anything vulgar in USA..specially the words "kick in".