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Azz Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Got me with

What does

"She got me with nothing to win and nothing to lose"

mean?
  

Top answer

Hi Azz, Can you give us more context? Cheers

  • Hi Azz, Can you give us more context?
  • Cheers
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Hi Azz,
Can you give us more context?
Cheers
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I thought everybody knew the context. It is from a song by U2 called "With or Without You". Somebody asked me to translate the lyrics. I think there are two possibilities:
1-You brought me to a condition in which I have nothing to win and nothing to lose
(But I don't think that would be grammatically correct. "To get someone with child" is correct, but I am not sure "To get someone with
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I still don't quite see what it means. Do you mean she has you?
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Sorry Azz, I have never been a U2 fan, and I still don't know the context.
I'm tempted to say their lyrics must be as mindless as their melodies, but that may be just a tad harsh - after all they have sold a lot of records.
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I sort of like them, but am not a fan. I don't have a single album of theirs as a matter of fact. I know that pop-song-writers tend to twist the English language from time to time. According to another person I asked the meaning is simply:
She owned me entirely.
She had me and I had nothing to win and nothing to lose.

It's just a love song and the title says it all I suppose.

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