The unspoken NGL is the honest thought you very clearly have but are choosing — wisely or not — to keep inside your head. Everyone in the conversation knows it exists. The awkward pause after someone shares their plan? That's an unspoken NGL hanging in the air. It's the truth that social contracts prevent from being said out loud, the thought-bubble moment that your face betrays even when your mouth stays shut. Calling out an unspoken NGL is a social power move. Leaving it unspoken is sometimes just self-preservation.
There was a massive unspoken ngl when she said she'd been 'mostly eating healthy' and opened a third bag of chips.
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