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What does "Ой всё" mean? My Russian friends use it a lot.

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    Wery often adding some examples would make answers more helpful. Questions about language usually have different answers depending on context.
    – Artemix
    Feb 26, 2016 at 8:28
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    Phrase came from popular russian meme. Before "memoizing" this phrase was not so popular.
    – Zxcvb
    Mar 2, 2016 at 8:41
  • Виктор, а вы же сами носитель русского языка?
    – shabunc
    Oct 12, 2016 at 14:08
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    @shabunc да. Но не думаю, что это повод меня минусовать.
    – Viktor
    Oct 12, 2016 at 14:09
  • минусовать может любой пользователь не понравившиеся вопросы, задавать вопросы на которые очевидно вы знаете ответ - вообще-то это тоже по правилам и стопроцентно приемлемый кейс. Я просто не совсем догнал - как говорят мои русские друзья - чего это - так они тоже говорят - за закос под иностранца :P А если серьёзно, то понимание является ли автор вопроса носителем языка или нет иногда помогает дать более полезный и полный ответ.
    – shabunc
    Oct 12, 2016 at 14:12

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"Ой, все" - it is a very informal way to stop discussion. It is mostly used by women as a final argument in a dispute.

Women always want to say the "last word" in any dispute but if they feel they don't have any more agruments they can say "Ой, все" and can even leave the room-)))

If you hear "Ой, все" it usially means that you are right.

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This expression means something along the lines of "I'm done", meaning that someone is not willing to continue an argument. Quite often it implies that a person saying "Oй все" lost an argument. The phrase can also be used as a joke to mock such behaviour.

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'Ohh, that's all.' literally.

It means like you don't wanna chat, you wanna change a topic of the speech or dialogue. Sometimes it means that opponent don't wanna think about this problem/task right now, because he/she can't see solution or does not agree with your solution/thoughts. Yes, sometimes it can be translated as 'Lets stop talking, I STILL don't agree with you. There is no point in our dialogue/You are hopeless.' Also "ой, всё" can be used as a joke, not seriously.

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    It's also used a lot to make fun of female logic. Especially like a last argument in discussion that can't be beaten.
    – UVV
    Feb 26, 2016 at 8:14
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are everybody sure they get the meaning of the phrase right?

i can envision two meanings

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Enough of that!

to cut the conversation short

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Wow, is that right?

a sarcastic remark meant to belittle the significance of the interlocutor's statement

in this sense the phrase can also look like

Ой (ну теперь) всё!

всё in the sense of всё пропало

synonymous to such sarcastic phrases as

Ой, горе-то какое!
Ой, что ж теперь делать?
Ой, как жить-то теперь?

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It is used as an indication that something happened or broke unexpectedly. In an overly cute and helpless sort of way. Kind of like "oopsie!"

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  • I suppose, it would be simply "ой".
    – Nikolja
    Sep 28, 2016 at 22:56
  • It's more about "ну, всё [приехали]", "ой всё" is a slightly different thing
    – shabunc
    Oct 12, 2016 at 14:18

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