this is someone

English

Phrase

this is someone

1. (MLE) This is what (the named person) said or did; used in recounting events, etc.

   So I get home at two in the morning, right, and this is my mum: "where do you think you've been all night?"

See also

• be like

References

• Jenny Cheshire and Sue Fox, This is me/this is him: The quotative system of London adolescents (Queen Mary, University of London, UK; presented at NWAV 36, University of Pennsylvania, October 2007) [1]