What do you mean you washed garlic?

Wash garlic means washed garlic in Chinese. At present, it generally refers to network language, which means "forget it when you are dead." After washing garlic, it originated from a video on the Internet. A person said "forget it when you die" in nonstandard Mandarin. Because it is nonstandard Mandarin, it is called "washing garlic", which is popular on the Internet because it is more joyful.

What do you mean you washed garlic?

After garlic was washed, it gradually gained some other meanings through the fermentation and spread of the network. For example, it is widely used in the field of online games. If you are unhappy after losing the game, netizens will angrily scold you for washing garlic, which means "forget it" and means unloading the game.

In network language, garlic washing is called "homophonic stalk" by netizens, which means that it is similar to or homophonic with some Chinese formal terms, and the original intention of expressing Chinese formal terms is replaced by network terms.