I'd like to bid on that head…
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Someone should make a character who is devoted to getting rid of all inappropriate words and emotes from other characters, any means necessary.
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wishes Harry was back to scowl his arm at you
Just use "dips her head in acknowledgement" if that is what you mean. Really. Its quite descriptive and a real word.
Its just a pet peeve, take it as you will.
My main goal here was education. Perhaps those that "bid" didn't really know what it did or did not mean and would like to know.
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bids his trollface.jpg
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smirks
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Someone should make a character who is devoted to getting rid of all inappropriate words and emotes from other characters, any means necessary.
Oh no, Bormyr is screwed.
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Never heard of bid with this whole nodding definition before. Must be one of those things you wacky Americans came up with.
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OI! Don't you go lumping me in with those damn dirty Yanks.
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Someone should make a character who is devoted to getting rid of all inappropriate words and emotes from other characters, any means necessary.
If only I was a native speaker! ALL my characters would live for this!
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I don't think "bid your head" is a proper use and something I've only seen here.
"I bid you adieu" is probably the stem of this (Chaucer 1300's??).
It really means bid in the way of "I offer.." as in "I bid you adieu" means something like - "I offer you a warm farewell and commend you into the safety of god's protection". (Not 100% on that exactly- my French language is centered around ordering wine.)
It is usually only used in a formal setting or to sound formal and not a common phrase you use amongst friends. It has been adapted over time and some people use it to either "sign on" or "sign off" correspondence or personal appearances. For example, you might send a message to several friends from vacation that starts, "I bid you greetings from Mexico," or I've seen TV hosts sign off a program, "I bid you farewell and safe travels."
So assuming that bid in these cases means "to offer" (as in a bid as you would bid at an auction means to make an offer), what people would be saying is they "offer their head" which is a bit of a jump.
To "Bid one's head goodbye" would actually mean to "say goodbye to your head" which is an excellent threat, but not something to do to oneself. You can draw your axe and says to the helpless fellow "Bid your head goodbye." But then "head is actually a sort of preposition as in whom is receiving the "goodbye". "Say goodbye to your head."
Bade the past tense of bid is used in the bible a ton, but it falls into use as "to offer" or "to tell" or "to recommend strongly". as in "He bade his soldiers to gather round him. It is -mostly- used as a sendoff or greeting as in "He bade them take the southern route on the way out of town" but the bible is a bit of a mess grammatically speaking. It lends itself to a lot of awkward phrases there, but still no one I know if "bade their head".
The thing is, it sounds like a proper idiom and something that has been said before, but it's not. I suppose you could emote Bids hello with only a nod of the head and would technically be sound writing.
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watch who your calling yanks
we have southerners present as well
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Did a fungus just call me "wacky"?
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[Bids his head and locks the thread.]
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Sold to the man with the pelican!