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What Does “No Worries” Mean, and Where Did the Term Come From?

Raise your hand if you’ve ever said “no worries” when a co-worker schedules a meeting for 5 p.m. on a Friday. To be clear, there are worries (namely, about your happy hour plans), but the little white ...
Mental Floss

How “No Worries” Became Everyone’s Go-To Phrase

A smiley face balloon next to a speech bubble of the phrase “No worries!” | Balloon photo: Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images You’ve probably heard or said “no worries” before, but did you ...
AOL

Where Does the Phrase “No Worries” Come From?

English expressions can be very perplexing, especially when you don’t know where they came from and can’t possibly imagine it. For instance, why do we say “spill the beans” when we’re not talking ...
CNET

'No worries' made a banned-words list, but I refuse to stop using it

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...