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JCDenton Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

it takes all kinds???

Hi guys,
Can you please explain me this phrase? I heard it in this context: Two FBI agents are talking about the woman who is missing two days. They found out that she disappeared, whe she left her job as a striper. One of that agent wanted to know, if her husband knew about her job...

A: Anything on the husband?

B: Well, he told NYPD that he didn't have a problem with her stripping.

A: And they believed that?
B: It takes all kinds. ...???? Emotion: surpriseEmotion: sad (Please guys, I'm out here...)


Many thanks in advance for clarification.

Best Regards
JCD

  

Top answer

It takes many kinds of people to make the world complete. The implication is that some people would object to their wife stripping, and that's perhaps the expected reaction, but there are some people who would not. The kind who would not is just "one of the kinds of people" on this planet.

— BarbaraPA

  • It takes many kinds of people to make the world complete.
  • The implication is that some people would object to their wife stripping, and that's perhaps the expected reaction, but there are some people who would not.
  • The kind who would not is just "one of the kinds of people" on this planet.
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It takes many kinds of people to make the world complete.

The implication is that some people would object to their wife stripping, and that's perhaps the expected reaction, but there are some people who would not. The kind who would not is just "one of the kinds of people" on this planet.
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It's the short form of "it takes all kinds of people to make a world." I guess the idea is like Noah's ark - you need a representative of every type - even the strangest and weirdest and most obnoxious etc.

The expression is used so often that nobody bothers to say the complete version.

- A.
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Guys, many thanks to both of you for your answer!!! Anyway, I still don't get it...Emotion: sad
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Most people would assume that a husband would OBJECT to his wife being a stripper. They would assume that this man is one of the majority of men who would not like it.

Therefore, if the husband says that it's no problem, their first instinct would be to doubt him, to think that he is lying.

However, if you accept that there are many types of people on the planet - those who DO ob
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GG thx for the explanation!!!!!!!! Your example with that chocolate helped me a lot...[Y].I think I got the idea.
Best Regards
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JCDentonGG thx for the explanation!! Your example with that chocolate helped me a lot...
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I can't remember where I heard it: It doesn't take all kinds -- there are all kinds.
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PhilipI can't remember where I heard it: It doesn't take all kinds -- there are all kinds.
Hi Philip. I'm not sure I follow your meaning. Are you saying that you usually hear it as the pink version, or that you usually hear it with are instead of takes?

In my experience, A says it to B to express disdain fo
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Perhaps Philip is suggesting that the world would function just as well if some of those kinds weren't around. (And I agree. I mean, those who don't like chocolate can stay of course, but the child molesters, as an example, don't really enhance this place a whole lot.)
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PhilipI can't remember where I heard it: It doesn't take all kinds -- there are all kinds.
Hi Philip. I'm not sure I follow your meaning. Are you saying that you usually hear it as the pink version, or that you usually hear it with are instead of takes?


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