Is the phrase “mate’s rate” used in the US?

11 comments

1. No

2. I’ve never heard it in Tennessee but also we don’t say mate.

3. Nope. Family discount or something, but no cutesy rhyme

4. No, no one says that here. Here you’d just say “friends and family discount”.

5. Never heard that phrase. We usually use “friends and family discount”.

6. Nope. Capitalism means no one gets a deal

7. No we don’t really say mate here. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word mate used IRL here.

8. We don’t really use the term ‘mate’ to refer to a friend unless we’re doing an impersonation of someone in the Commonwealth. There’s no one term that is universally used with the same usage, but ‘bro’, ‘friend’, ‘buddy’, ‘pal’, or ‘dude’ (and many others) can be used depending on context, region, and situation.

   As others have pointed out, ‘friends and family discount’ or ‘friend rate’ may be used.

9. Nope.. We don’t really use the word “mate” the same way Brits do. No one calls their friend a mate. Here mate is usually only used when talking about animals mating or when talking about a matched pair of something. .

10. Friend price or friend and family discount are what you’d hear here.

11. Americans don’t call friends “mate.” Running off King George saved us from that terrible linguistic fate.