Do I understand it correctly?
This is an excerpt from the Shining:
A job like that even held the intellectual stimulation of making change and writing out credit slips. I can give you twenty-five hours a week at the minimum wage. That was heavy tunes in a year when Wonder Bread went for sixty cents a loaf.
I have previously asked here
https://www.italki.com/question/393019
But I don't know if my understanding is correct.
So "tunes" means "bad news" here instead of "amount". And "That was heavy tunes in a year when Wonder Bread went for sixty cents a loaf" means "you can hardly get by with that meager wage during that time because even the price of a loaf of Wonder Bread is as high as 60 cents, which is heavy tunes(bad news)", right?
Thank you.
Top answer
If "heavy tunes" means "bad news", as stated in the other thread, yes (except that in your paraphrase you have changed from past tense to present). I don't personally know the expression "heavy tunes".
- If "heavy tunes" means "bad news", as stated in the other thread, yes (except that in your paraphrase you have changed from past tense to present).
- I don't personally know the expression "heavy tunes".
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If "heavy tunes" means "bad news", as stated in the other thread, yes (except that in your paraphrase you have changed from past tense to present). I don't personally know the expression "heavy tunes".
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