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Hold on tight to your dreams and don't let anyone steal them away. They may be cheap trashy childish dreams but they are your dreams and if you let them die so will you.
I'm with you on the morals' angle - other than Nick (a wonderful character), Gatsby is the only one that has any values or integrity. But he is bonkers as she is not worth it. It has always been the biggest challenge for me with the novel: what does he see in her? Yes, I understand what she represented for him in youth: the unattainable, the uber-class, the money, the acceptance, the social standing, and the dish ran away with the spoon. But after having lived through WWI and all the intelligence and effort to make his fortune, he never saw it for what it was - a youthful crush on a flighty, self-absorbed girl? Really? It is the "perfect" novel in many ways, but all that for her? Hence, the motivation of the protagonist is hard for me to believe.
Who knows the secrets of the human heart?
I hate to be a buzz kill, but this is the "Terms Which Have Disappeared" thread, not "The Great Gatsby" thread.
In that context, a pill is someone who is unpleasant or difficult to deal with.What does it mean to call someone a pill? I know it is an old expression from the twenties thirties and forties. I think it means someone is a boring or annoying. Does anyone have an explanation or derivation or a definition of what it means to be a pill?
In that context, a pill is someone who is unpleasant or difficult to deal with.
I've never heard this a short-hand, but I do have vivid memories of nickel candy bars. We bought them most often at the candy counter at the front of Josephine's Market, a family-owned grocery across the street from our town's elementary school. If you didn't have a nickel, but could scrape together three cents, you could get a very thin chocolate bar with some peanut pieces called a "Lunch Bar"."I remember the 'nickel candy bar'"
In that context, a pill is someone who is unpleasant or difficult to deal with.
I've never heard this a short-hand, but I do have vivid memories of nickel candy bars.
Another thing I remember about nickel candy bars is the adults in my neighborhood expressing shock at candy bars costing a nickel. It usually went along the lines of, "When I was a boy, you could get a whole bag full of candy for a nickel!"
I remember nickel candy bars and 2 for a penny and 3 for a penny candies, barely. Don't remember the 5 cent candy bar expression.
In the twenties there was a catch phrase "what this country needs is a good five cent cigar". Did it start as a political slogan?
In the twenties there was a catch phrase "what this country needs is a good five cent cigar". Did it start as a political slogan?
My mom used to call me a pill if I was doing something she thought was silly.Yes Like as in "hard to swallow "or "hard to take " as in a pill , also someone who is boring " he's being a real pill"
All the Best ,Fashion Frank