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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Button-up life...

Zatanna: Now, there's a man who looks
like he needs a little magic in his button-up life. Tense life?

Oliver: I wouldn't want to steal
the hocus-pocus away from the birthday girl. How about
a little something special for the someone
who truly deserves it?
Zatanna: Rough birthday, huh?
Chloe: You ever seen the napalm scene
in "apocalypse now"? More fire, less cake. Meaning she wants a more vivid birthday?
  

Top answer

Buttoned-up doesn't mean tense so much as inhibited, conventional, careful about appearances. Think of a man carefully dressed in a neatly buttoned shirt, tie & jacket. "More fire, less cake" - I would take this to be a reference to the birthday cake with its candles.

— Delmobile

  • Buttoned-up doesn't mean tense so much as inhibited, conventional, careful about appearances.
  • Think of a man carefully dressed in a neatly buttoned shirt, tie & jacket.
  • "More fire, less cake" - I would take this to be a reference to the birthday cake with its candles.
  • Instead of a delicious cake with tiny dancing flames, this birthday is more like a napalm disaster.
  • I am not sure here who is having the birthday - the girl, the button-up-life man, who?
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Buttoned-up doesn't mean tense so much as inhibited, conventional, careful about appearances. Think of a man carefully dressed in a neatly buttoned shirt, tie & jacket.
"More fire, less cake" - I would take this to be a reference to the birthday cake with its candles. Instead of a delicious cake with tiny dancing flames, this birthday is more like a napalm disaster. I am not sure here who
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Chloe's having a birthday but everyone has
their appointments and leave the party.
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