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Madhulk Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Eat my weight in cinnabuns...
Jen: If I get this promotion, I'll be a year ahead of schedule.
Marissa: Yeah, well, I'm already a year ahead of schedule to eat my weight
in cinnabuns. She still has time turning awfully fat? So we'll both have something to celebrate.
Jen: I've got a ways to go before I can celebrate. I've got those sharks from the
suburbs breathing down my neck. How can South Boston compete with the ladies
that lunch in Hartford?
Marissa: Yeah, well, I'm already a year ahead of schedule to eat my weight
in cinnabuns. She still has time turning awfully fat? So we'll both have something to celebrate.
Jen: I've got a ways to go before I can celebrate. I've got those sharks from the
suburbs breathing down my neck. How can South Boston compete with the ladies
that lunch in Hartford?
Top answer
She is pretending that she has a goal to eat the equivalent of of her weight in Cinnabons. (I can see doing this. ) She has set a schedule fo how many she has to eat per week/month/year to accomplish this goal.
- She is pretending that she has a goal to eat the equivalent of of her weight in Cinnabons.
- (I can see doing this.
- ) She has set a schedule fo how many she has to eat per week/month/year to accomplish this goal.
- At the rate she has been eating them, she is ahead of her plan.
- It's obviously not a real goal and she hasn't been measuring her progress.
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She is pretending that she has a goal to eat the equivalent of of her weight in Cinnabons. (I can see doing this. They are delicious.) She has set a schedule fo how many she has to eat per week/month/year to accomplish this goal.
At the rate she has been eating them, she is ahead of her plan.
It's obviously not a real goal and she hasn't been measuring her progress. She's just co
At the rate she has been eating them, she is ahead of her plan.
It's obviously not a real goal and she hasn't been measuring her progress. She's just co
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Here we have a contrast between two friends. Jen is obsessed with promotions. Marissa is more laid back and is content to enjoy life - and food. Of course no one would actually keep track if they were eating their weight in cinnabuns. This is just good-natured banter on Marissa's part. She replies to Jen's "year ahead of schedule" statement with her own "year ahead of schedule" statement, but
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