Street voices
Janna
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United States
Just recorded
"my roman empire is basically something you have thought about or talked about quite a lot it could be literally anything like um a recent tv show you watched or a movie or a book you read or somewhere you've been or an experience anything can be a roman empire you know how like basically roman empire was like critical in history this thing is critical and you know your life or it to you in that moment an example would be oh my god i can't stop watching lala land it's my roman empire"
What it means
Your Roman Empire is the random topic you think about way more often than anyone would expect. It started as a literal question to men about the actual Roman Empire, then became shorthand for anyone's oddly frequent mental obsession, from a football match in 2008 to how ships float.
Usage examples
"That one embarrassing email from 2019 is my Roman Empire, it just pops into my head."
"Ask him about offside rules, it is his entire Roman Empire."
Where it comes from
From a 2023 trend where women asked their partners how often they think about the Roman Empire, and the answers were startlingly often.
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