Does the phrase go 'quote on quote' or 'quote unquote'?

Question

It's kind of hard to know when it's usually only a spoken phrase with that unstressed syllable.

Answer 1

"quote unquote"

Answer 2

Quote unquote. The words replace quotation marks when you are speaking, in the way in which some people mime them with their fingers. The word "quote" opens the quotation and the word "unquote" completes it. Normally it refers to a quotation which the speaker doesn't approve of: that is the implication contained in the use of the words.

Answer 3

I believe it goes quote unquote because you are going from beginning to end of the quote .

Answer 4

Yes, it is the second one....."Quote unquote," which is used to describe in a little bit of a sarcastic way what somebody said even though it may not have been what he really meant.

A lot of things are said like this in a hurry that then get misunderstood. For example, I hear people say "supposably," when the correct word is "supposedly." We all sometimes tend to be a bit lazy in correctly enunciating things.

One funny one was when my son was about four. In attempting to describe "corn on the cob," he said, "corna ba cob." It was cute.

Answer 5

The second one. The first quote replaces the first " and unquote replaces the second ". For example he said quote I'm gonna get you unquote. People usually group the quote and unquote together to get he said quote unquote I'm gonna get you.

Answer 6

Quote Unquote...to speak the quotation marks around something someone else said word for word.

She said, "I'm going home now." (Quote Unquote)

Answer 7

quote - unquote

Answer 8

I think the later is correct since the conjuction ON is simply to join word together. For example CONDITIONAL cannot be ON CONDITIONAL, this simply mean something else entirely. It should rather be 'conditional unconditional'.

Answer 9

its quote-unquote....