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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
It’s all over Johnny
In the book I am reading one chapter is titled "It’s All Over, Johnny". The only part in the text that refers to this title is:
"In Man-Eating Plant, Rockman himself appears as a gung-ho Tarzan, struggling with the whip-like tendrils and dagger-like spines of a man-eating crypto-plant, the Yate-Veo (‘the Portuguese “Ya te veo” means “I see you”, or“It’s all over Johnny”,’ he tells us) in a jungle that looks like a startlingly vivid version of the usually emaciated backdrops to old-fashioned museum displays."
My question is that what does "It’s All Over, Johnny" mean? Is it a phrase? As I do not see any "Johny" in “Ya te veo”, it seems to have a phrasal meaning. I think it should be a phrase used at the end of a game like hide and seek. huh? At the end of a hide and seek game you say "I see you" which I think should be an equivalent for "It's all over Johny"?
"In Man-Eating Plant, Rockman himself appears as a gung-ho Tarzan, struggling with the whip-like tendrils and dagger-like spines of a man-eating crypto-plant, the Yate-Veo (‘the Portuguese “Ya te veo” means “I see you”, or“It’s all over Johnny”,’ he tells us) in a jungle that looks like a startlingly vivid version of the usually emaciated backdrops to old-fashioned museum displays."
My question is that what does "It’s All Over, Johnny" mean? Is it a phrase? As I do not see any "Johny" in “Ya te veo”, it seems to have a phrasal meaning. I think it should be a phrase used at the end of a game like hide and seek. huh? At the end of a hide and seek game you say "I see you" which I think should be an equivalent for "It's all over Johny"?
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org/wiki/Everyman . "It's all over" means - the gig is up, the game is over, you are caught, etc. depending on the context.
- org/wiki/Everyman .
- "It's all over" means - the gig is up, the game is over, you are caught, etc.
- depending on the context.
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"Johnny" is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman.
"It's all over" means - the gig is up, the game is over, you are caught, etc. depending on the context.
"It's all over" means - the gig is up, the game is over, you are caught, etc. depending on the context.
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