Expressions for Choice

Now here’s a very common situation that you may come across.

You want to do something with a friend but you don’t really care what exactly you do.

For example you’re going to go out to dinner but where you eat is not important to you right.

You’re a bit apathetic toward where you’re going to go out to eat and you want your friend to choose.

You want them to decide OK you don’t care.

You could say I don’t care.

I don’t care.

But there are a couple of specific expressions that we can use here that can be used to push decisions to other people.

OK.

So let’s look at those and these are pretty simple.

One friend says Do you want to go out to eat later.

Yeah sure that sounds fun.

Sounds good.

Any ideas any ideas and it’s your call.

It’s your call see a l l call.

Yes.

This call means decision.

This call means decision.

It’s your decision.

I’m taking my option to give a decision or to decide I’m giving it to you and whatever you say is what we will do.

So you say let’s eat Thai food and I say OK OK I don’t care.

I don’t care.

It’s your call.

It’s your call and you can use it for lots of other social situations where you want other people to decide.

It’s your call.

It’s your call.

Whatever.

Maybe you’re going on a vacation and you want to choose where to go on vacation.

Lots of different situations you can use it anywhere.

Also you can use up to you to you know up to you could be about a responsibility.

It’s up to you to make sure that everyone is safe.

OK.

That’s your responsibility.

So that’s OK.

But up to you can also mean I’m lifting up the decision and allowing you sort of offering it to you to choose up to you.

I’m holding it here and you can decide this or this.

Where do you want to go for dinner.

Up to you.

It’s up to you.

OK.

You left it up to me to decide where we were going to go on our vacation and I decided that we would go on a skiing trip.

And now you’re all complaining to me about choosing to go on a ski trip.

So then why did you say it’s up to me if you didn’t really mean it.

If it’s really up to me then you can’t complain.

OK.

So sometimes when people say it’s up to you it’s not it’s not really what they feel.

And then later when someone else makes the decision they complain to common common situation that I face.

OK.

So that’s another way to push a decision on others.

And we can also say here whatever whatever.

Where do you want to eat whatever.

Sort of like saying you choose and you could add whatever is fine whatever is fine whatever is ok whatever is good with me could also say good with me.

So these are three very common expressions we can use in many many many many many situations to express the idea of I don’t want to decide I’m giving you the decision.

Basically that’s what these mean.

OK.