Crazy neck
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"Some stupid guy had thrown peanut shells all over the stairs, and I damn near broke my crazy neck." A sentence from "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger.
What does "crazy neck" mean in this sentence? Is "damn" here an adjective or a verb or an exclamation like
Damn it/Dammit, I nearly broke my crazy neck?
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fate22 What does "crazy neck" mean in this sentence? Hard to say. It might be local slang where Caulfield is supposed to be from, but I read it as Salinger trying to sound like a teenager, being carelessly inventive and slangy, substituting "crazy" for the more usual "stupid".
- fate22 What does "crazy neck" mean in this sentence?
- Hard to say.
- It might be local slang where Caulfield is supposed to be from, but I read it as Salinger trying to sound like a teenager, being carelessly inventive and slangy, substituting "crazy" for the more usual "stupid".
- It is a form of hypallage, a rather unconscious form, where the narrator is actually the crazy or stupid one, not his neck.
- fate22 Is "****" here an adjective or a verb or an exclamation like **** it/Dammit, I nearly broke my crazy neck?
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fate22What does "crazy neck" mean in this sentence?
Hard to say. It might be local slang where Caulfield is supposed to be from, but I read it as Salinger trying to sound like a teenager, being carelessly inventive and slangy, substituting "crazy" for the more usual "stupid". It is a form of hypallage, a rather unconscious form, where the narrator is actual
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