Soft landing

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

Is "wish you a soft landing" a natural expresion to use?

 

[emsr2d2]

Hello.

Is "wish you a soft landing" a natural expression? [strike]to use?[/strike]

In what context? Is there some reason there is no personal pronoun at the start?

 

[Rachel Adams]

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In what context? Is there some reason there is no personal pronoun at the start?

"I wish you" or "Wish you". Is it wrong to omit the "I"?
I mean when wishing someone a safe flight.

 

[teechar]

Unless you're talking to, for example, a pilot who has problems with landings, use "Have a safe flight". Sometimes, that is (casually) shortened to "Safe flight".

 

[Tdol]

I last heard soft landing used when a journalist wished his brother a comfortable a death as possible- the brother had terminal cancer. We don't use it for modern flights.

 

[teechar]

"Soft landing" is often used metaphorically in news/current affairs programs to talk about a gentle slow down of the economy (as opposed to a dramatic crash).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_landing_(economics)

 

[Rachel Adams]

I last heard soft landing used when a journalist wished his brother a comfortable a death as possible- the brother had terminal cancer. We don't use it for modern flights.

But was it ever used in the sense I was asking about?

 

[Tarheel]

The alternative is a hard landing (a crash). I think it's taken for granted that we don't want that.

 

[Rover_KE]

But was it ever used in the sense I was asking about?

Probably not.

You're more likely to hear 'Safe flight'.

 

[Tdol]

But was it ever used in the sense I was asking about?

Possibly in the days before modern planes.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Hello.

Is "Have a soft landing" a natural expresion to use?

It's natural only if you're being playfully morbid.