grown-up point
English
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Wearing an apron during household chores gives grown-up points.
Noun
grown-up point (plural grown-up points)
- An imaginary point given (to younger persons) for individual behaviour that characterize life as an adult.
- 2008 December 23, Andreas Arvman, “Collecting grown-up points is about responsibility”, in The Honolulu Advertiser:
- Collecting grown-up points is about responsibility. […] Buying a potted plant: 1 grown-up point. Keeping it alive for a year: 10 points.
- 2015 June 25, Eleanor Jones, “25 purchases that prove you've become a grown up”, in Cosmopolitan:
- Bonus grown up points if you consider yourself 'addicted'.
- 2016 May 9, Emily Yoshida, “The Game of Game of Thrones: Season 6, Episode 3, Oathbreaker”, in The Verge:
- I was so looking forward to awarding some Grown Up points to Tommen Baratheon this week, who is clearly smarting over his inability to do much of anything.
- 2017 February 27, Kate Shellnutt, “The case for going to bed at 2:30 am”, in Vox:
- For bonus grown-up points, you complain that you can’t make it to midnight, even on New Year’s Eve.
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Translations
grown-up points
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