What is the meaning of the sentence "Do not try this at home!"?

Question

What is the meaning of the sentence "Do not try this at home!"? I am a foreigner in America. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It means exactly what it says. No hidden message at all. Do Not Try This at Home.

Answer 2

"off of" = "off" It's a colloquial/dialect idiom. It's not at all wrong (a number of well-known writers have used it), though people who are inflexible about dialect and colloquial speech tend to think it is. It's one of those idioms that has been in English since way back - Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage cites an example in Shakespeare - but began to be questioned, on no evidence beyond personal taste, by grammar pundits at the end of the 19th century. =quote= It is an idiom that occurred naturally in the speech of William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Harry S. Truman, and James Thurber, among others. If it is part of your personal idiom and you are not writing on an especially elevated plane, you have no reason to avoid "off of". - Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage =unquote=

Answer 3

Whenever someone performs a stunt, or something dangerous, or highly skilled on TV, they'll warn the viewers (especially naive children) that they should not try it at home, because it is dangerous. A lot of people say this phrase in their daily speech to mean that they are about to do something that might be dangerous and/or stupid.

Answer 4

It means that it could be extremely dangerous to anyone trying it. There are trained professionals who are undertaking the task on TV and they usually have back ups with an ambulance service on call. It is usually followed by: "Oops."

Answer 5

The action that you are watching is done by professionals with all the equipment needed to take care of any accidents that happen.

You would have none of this at home and could get severely hurt or die.

-M

Answer 6

It means a dangerous act is being screen previously and it should not be repeated by un-trained individuals without professional guidance or there may be some injury

Answer 7

It means that you probably need special training or education to do whatever it is at home. Sometimes it's just a joke too.

Answer 8

It is a sentence that television programs can use as a lawsuit-free waiver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiver , so if anybody is stupid enough to imitate something on Fear Factor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Factor or some other show that has dangerous stunts and die the family can not sue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuit , the owner's of the show and/or the network because they clearly said not to do it, period.

Your very welcome.

Answer 9

This means that whatever it is that is being shown on TV is not real, and probably dangerous in some way. It basically means "don't do whatever it is you see here"

Answer 10

gerneraly it means something is too dangeouse to try unless you absolutly know what you are doing. young people espacialy will try things they see on TV... a lot get hurt doing so.