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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Cup cake

Hi

I called the Archbishop of Canterbury and told him I loved what he was doing and that it was great that the Church didn't seem to stand for anything. It was death by cup cake, darling!

--- Does it mean that the Archbishop didn't care about the church or that the caller thought church meant nothing and bishop was shocked and died eating a cup cake.

Did I understand it correctly?
  

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Hi, Can you supply some more context for this? Who is speaking? What kind of person?

— Clive

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  • Is it from a comic novel?
  • Who by?
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Hi,
Can you supply some more context for this? Who is speaking? What kind of person? Is it from a comic novel? Who by?

Clive
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MacPhisto's nightly phone calls, often to controversial politicians with whom the audience would be familiar, were a highly entertaining way of raising potentially sensitive issues. Bono explains in U2 By U2 why it was so effective:

Gavin Friday said to me, 'If you want to make a Devil you should have horns.' I said, 'Yeah, well I'm not wearing horns. I'll look ridiculou
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Hi,

I don't really know what is meant here. Perhaps this may be a catch phrase that is used in Britain. Maybe, maybe not.

Clive
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I seem to think that it means he was sweet to him. He was insulting him, ridiculing him, but doing it with flattery and what sounded like compliments that there was no way he could fight back. Death (not actual death, but a loss in this battle) by cupcake - by frothy, sweet commentary.

I'm not really sure, but that's my guess.
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Hi

What about this part: it was great that the Church didn't seem to stand for anything.

Is he just saying that in his opinion church meant nothing, people didn't go to this place.....
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Newguestit was great that the Church didn't seem to stand for anything.
They are attributing to the archbishop the opinion that the Church doesn't stand for anything -- has no real beliefs. Perhaps the archbishop is so liberal in his interpretation of theology that it seemed to them that there was barely anything left that the archbishop actually b
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Thank you guys!!! It's much clearer now!
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