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The square footage where your dignity goes to die at 3am.
means The space or manner associated with attending to someone who is sick or sleeping, as in a 'bedside manner' or a 'bedside table'.
from A straightforward compound of 'bed' and 'side,' first used literally to mean the space next to a bed. It picked up its figurative weight in medicine — 'bedside manner' entered use to describe how doctors comport themselves at that exact spot, hovering between clinical duty and human comfort.
- manner
- doctors are graded on it, rarely trained on it
- table
- junk drawer promoted to furniture
- etymology
- literally just means next to a bed
- lamp
- the last light before every bad decision