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Madhulk Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

Aside from...

Lois is eating chocolate and Clark enters the room.
Lois: Enter at your own caIoric risk. With the risk to join her with the chocolate?

Clark: How are you doing?

Lois: Aside from the metaphor...
I was hoping rocky road (the chocolate?) wouId heIp,
but nothing, nada.(nothing?) Not even a dent. She was hoping for a caries?
  

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Rocky road is kind of chocolate ice cream that includes nuts and marshmallows. nada is Spanish for nothing, very popular term in the States. Dent (your conclusion was humorously logical, I must admit) is what you have left on your car door when someone has kicked it.

— Philip

  • Rocky road is kind of chocolate ice cream that includes nuts and marshmallows.
  • nada is Spanish for nothing, very popular term in the States.
  • Dent (your conclusion was humorously logical, I must admit) is what you have left on your car door when someone has kicked it.
  • Here, it is used figuratively to mean that nothing has improved.
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Rocky road is kind of chocolate ice cream that includes nuts and marshmallows.

nada is Spanish for nothing, very popular term in the States.

Dent (your conclusion was humorously logical, I must admit) is what you have left on your car door when someone has kicked it. Here, it is used figuratively to mean that nothing has improved.
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