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TGIF

An initialism of "thank God it's Friday," a common expression used to celebrate the end of the working week. Good morning, everyone. TGIF, am I right? God, what an awful week this has been. All I can say is TGIF.

TGIF

1. interj. Thank God it’s Friday. (Initialism.) Everybody was muttering TGIF by Friday afternoon.

2. n. a party held on Friday in honor of the end of the workweek. Everyone is invited to the TGIF tonight.

T.G.I.F.

Acronym for thank God it’s Friday, indicating one is glad to reach the last day of the traditional five-day workweek. Eric Partridge suggested that this semi-humorous cliché may have originated among schoolteachers, but by the mid-1900s it had been taken over by anyone who worked a five-day week. From about 1991 to 2000 the Boston Globe business section ran a weekly Friday column entitled “T.G.I.F.,” written by Alex Beam. New Hampshire’s Manchester Union-Leader also has one, and probably countless other newspapers as well. At one point, Beam said, he also wrote a column called “T.G.I.W.,” which ran on Wednesdays, but so many readers were baffled by this acronym that it was discontinued. T.G.I.F., on the other hand, definitely qualifies as a cliché.

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