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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
A nothing job?
1) Does "a nothing job" mean "a work that is worthy of nothing"?
2)"It can't go on" and "we can't go on"? Go on what? Go on our conversation? Or our relationship?
Context:
Room by room, I saw the traps he'd set for other people, I guessed I was being mocked for having ended up as such a callow failure, trapped in a nothing job. I had no doubt Guy had hacked into everything, collected his data.
I tiptoed round the totems, got more and more freaked out. And then, I found another room, another speaking thing, this time a "woman" – I realised, with a jolt, it was Eloise.
She had long black hair, kohled eyes, she was astonishingly beautiful. I remembered, of course. I had been...
Oh well, I had been...
In love.
"Eloise" was speaking quietly, she always spoke quietly, I had to lean towards her – it.
"Guy, I mean, this is ridiculous. It can't go on. No, no I haven't, are you filming? But just for once... can you stop filming every conversation we have? OK, you've stopped. Yes? Promise. Just this once. Please?"
Her expression was pained, contemptuous, loving – she was in agony. I thought of Guy – past – surreptitiously filming anyway, even when she'd begged him not to.
"We can't go on. I love you but it's too much. I can't do it anymore." She was crying now, the kohl was going everywhere. "No, it's not Doug. I don't even care about him. You know that, surely?"
2)"It can't go on" and "we can't go on"? Go on what? Go on our conversation? Or our relationship?
Context:
Room by room, I saw the traps he'd set for other people, I guessed I was being mocked for having ended up as such a callow failure, trapped in a nothing job. I had no doubt Guy had hacked into everything, collected his data.
I tiptoed round the totems, got more and more freaked out. And then, I found another room, another speaking thing, this time a "woman" – I realised, with a jolt, it was Eloise.
She had long black hair, kohled eyes, she was astonishingly beautiful. I remembered, of course. I had been...
Oh well, I had been...
In love.
"Eloise" was speaking quietly, she always spoke quietly, I had to lean towards her – it.
"Guy, I mean, this is ridiculous. It can't go on. No, no I haven't, are you filming? But just for once... can you stop filming every conversation we have? OK, you've stopped. Yes? Promise. Just this once. Please?"
Her expression was pained, contemptuous, loving – she was in agony. I thought of Guy – past – surreptitiously filming anyway, even when she'd begged him not to.
"We can't go on. I love you but it's too much. I can't do it anymore." She was crying now, the kohl was going everywhere. "No, it's not Doug. I don't even care about him. You know that, surely?"
Top answer
A 'nothing job' is one that is not important, doesn't pay well, isn't satisfactory: any or all of these. If something 'can't go on' it usually means that someone doesn't want it to continue as is: it needs to change.
- A 'nothing job' is one that is not important, doesn't pay well, isn't satisfactory: any or all of these.
- If something 'can't go on' it usually means that someone doesn't want it to continue as is: it needs to change.
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A 'nothing job' is one that is not important, doesn't pay well, isn't satisfactory: any or all of these.
If something 'can't go on' it usually means that someone doesn't want it to continue as is: it needs to change.
If something 'can't go on' it usually means that someone doesn't want it to continue as is: it needs to change.
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"A nothing job" is a low-paying, minimum wage type of job. This is a derogatory term, usually used to belittle the person holding such a job. This is essentially saying that, since the person works at a nothing job, he is, by extension, worth nothing.
"I/we can't go on" typically means "I/we can't continue with this situation" or "This situation is unendurable/intolerable."
"I/we can't go on" typically means "I/we can't continue with this situation" or "This situation is unendurable/intolerable."
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Thanks.
BTW: "I haven't what" in "It can't go on. No, no I haven't, are you filming?"?
BTW: "I haven't what" in "It can't go on. No, no I haven't, are you filming?"?
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