September 16, 2025 — The phrase that kept coming up over the last several days was "make fetch happen." (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters ...)

Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
September 16, 2025  —  The phrase that kept coming up over the last several days was “make fetch happen.”  It's a reference to the film Mean Girls, when one of the characters tries to make the word “fetch” trendy, using it to mean “cool” or “awesome.”  Another character eventually slaps back: “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen.

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