'Hold my avocado': can you pick the real millennial catchphrases? - quiz

A woman holds an avocado Photograph: Jay Reilly/Getty Images/Uppercut

Time magazine has been laughed at on Twitter for suggesting that the phrase “hold my avocado” is the new viral millennial catchphrase.

The magazine said the sentence was so powerful because it “takes advantage of the ‘hold my beer’ dialogue construction that’s become an internet joke to represent how politicians, brands, or other entities play a race-to-the-bottom game of putting their feet in their mouths”.

Sadly for Time, millennials don’t seem to agree. So, can you tell the on fleek millennial catchphrase from the out-dated, un-woke sayings of old? Take our very scientific quiz and find out:

1. Hold my avocado!

   1. Yes, millennials actually always have an avocado to signal their financial stability and therefore, eligibility

   2. No

2. We will fight them on the beaches

   1. Yes, a quintessentially millennial turn of phrase

   2. No

3. I can't even

   1. Yes

   2. No

4. How do you do, fellow kids?

   1. Yes, it's their go-to greeting

   2. No

5. Grab her by the pussy!

   1. Yes

   2. No

6. You can't fly unless you let yourself fall

   1. Yes

   2. No

7. The struggle is real

   1. Yes, ugh, all the time

   2. No, never

8. Hold my crippling student debt

   1. Yes, too much

   2. No, university was incredibly free for millennials, just like for generations before

9. Ich bin ein Berliner

   1. Ja

   2. Nein

10. Lit af fam

    1. Yes fam, all the time

    2. No, fam

11. But her emails!

    1. Yes

    2. No

12. LMAO FR FAM HML WYD

    1. Literally, yes

    2. Um, no

Solutions

1:B, 2:B, 3:A, 4:B, 5:B, 6:B, 7:A, 8:A, 9:B, 10:A, 11:A, 12:A

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