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Linguaphile Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
insane
Charlie:
Now, Drive Shaft's albums must've......spiked when everybody found out that I died in some catastrophic plane disaster. But when I come back? Alive! It's gonna be insane.
Kate:
So you think the raft's gonna work?
Charlie: Of course. Look at that thing. It's not a raft. They built a sodding boat.
from the TV show 'Lost'.
What does 'insane' mean there? Cambridge says it has two meanings: 1 mentally ill 2 INFORMAL extremely unreasonable, but here I think we need a third sense.
What do you think?
Now, Drive Shaft's albums must've......spiked when everybody found out that I died in some catastrophic plane disaster. But when I come back? Alive! It's gonna be insane.
Kate:
So you think the raft's gonna work?
Charlie: Of course. Look at that thing. It's not a raft. They built a sodding boat.
from the TV show 'Lost'.
What does 'insane' mean there? Cambridge says it has two meanings: 1 mentally ill 2 INFORMAL extremely unreasonable, but here I think we need a third sense.
What do you think?Top answer
Hi, The underlying thought is 'When people find out that I'm not dead, they are going to do things that make them seem insane'. It's a slang, hyperbolic way of saying that there will be a huge amount of surprise and excitement. Clive
- Hi, The underlying thought is 'When people find out that I'm not dead, they are going to do things that make them seem insane'.
- It's a slang, hyperbolic way of saying that there will be a huge amount of surprise and excitement.
- Clive
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Hi,
The underlying thought is 'When people find out that I'm not dead, they are going to do things that make them seem insane'. It's a slang, hyperbolic way of saying that there will be a huge amount of surprise and excitement.
Clive
The underlying thought is 'When people find out that I'm not dead, they are going to do things that make them seem insane'. It's a slang, hyperbolic way of saying that there will be a huge amount of surprise and excitement.
Clive
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