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Madhulk Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

I don't see you breaking through any glass ceilings...

Silver Banshee: I was denied vengeance, just as I was denied power.
But now I shall have both.
Oliver: I'm all about the girl power, really, but I got to be honest with you...
I don't see you breaking through any glass ceilings with that hair. He doesn't
take her to be frightening with that hair?
  

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com/dictionary/glass+ceiling : "an intangible barrier within a hierarchy that prevents women or minorities from obtaining upper-level positions". "breaking through" the glass ceiling means overcoming those barriers. Why her hair should make this difficult is hard to say just from this fragment.

— Mr Wordy

  • com/dictionary/glass+ceiling : "an intangible barrier within a hierarchy that prevents women or minorities from obtaining upper-level positions".
  • "breaking through" the glass ceiling means overcoming those barriers.
  • Why her hair should make this difficult is hard to say just from this fragment.
  • I suppose her hair could be unfashionable, shocking, unconventional, whatever.
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For "glass ceiling", see, for example, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glass+ceiling : "an intangible barrier within a hierarchy that prevents women or minorities from obtaining upper-level positions".

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