What does it mean when someone says “You are choice, you know that? You are really choice.” Only heard this expression one time on a “Cheers” episode when Sam prys upon Rebecca making her feel sorry for him when all the time he’s just trying to get his way with her…if this context helps. What an odd expression!
“Choice” is one of the higher grades of beef in the US. Kind of crass to say such a thing to someone’s face, but then we are talking about Sam here.
Not really that odd. Choice being used as an adjective like this just means ‘best quality’. It’s a definition that’s given in any dictionary.
choice
adjective
It’s probably more common in speech in the UK, but even in the US products will commonly be labelled as choice quality or just plain choice especially on menus. Choice vegetables, choice seafood etc.
So it’s just a standard sarcastic/ironic expression. In the same context they could have said “You are nice you know that? You are real nice." Or used any of a million other sarcastic expressions. The man is acting in a manner that is anything other than appealing or high quality, hence the sarcasm.
As the above posters have posted, it means “good”. Often used in New Zealand thus:
“That’s choice eh bro?”
While the literal meaning is “good,” Sam was using it sarcastically.
It may be unclear from my OP, but actually Rebecca said it Sam, sarcastically.
Thanks to all for the clarification. I’ve just never heard this expression before, although I did see the episode a few times…I guess it didn’t phase me until now.