Emotional silver
They mistrust themselves, and everybody else who does not beat them into submission. They will call you Master, and betray you for someone else's emotional silver. One of them, when I stood high in his graces, appropriately gave me an effusively inscribed hook about Benedict Arnold's treason.
Hello,
1/ emotional silver = in order to make someone else happy? Is this idiomatic or just coined by the author?
I searched this from the Internet, but just very few relevant.
2/ What does inscribed hook refer to?
Many thanks!
Top answer
1. "silver" is presumably a metaphor for something of value, so "emotional silver" means something like emotional reward. 2.
- 1.
- "silver" is presumably a metaphor for something of value, so "emotional silver" means something like emotional reward.
- 2.
- According to the text I found online, it is "book", not "hook".
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1. "silver" is presumably a metaphor for something of value, so "emotional silver" means something like emotional reward.
2. According to the text I found online, it is "book", not "hook".
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