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Angliholic Posted 19 years ago
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Jealousy the motherlode

0Jealousy...the motherlode.02br
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00What does this mean? Thanks.02br
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0 The comic really doesn't make the intended meaning clear. I can't really say what it means...0-
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0 A "motherlode" is the main vein of a deposit in a mine.02br
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00The young woman is trying to make her partner/husband take note of her by suggesting that another man is after her. Her thought is that making him jealous is a good way of making him take notice.02br
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00If you follow the rest of the series, it seems to work.0-
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0Thanks, my friends.02br
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00So, I think the young woman regards jealousy as the rich resource of her power/control over her partner.0-
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0 It isn't really a literal transfer. Here the meaning is more like the 01b00source of action02b00. She is using jealousy as a tool to get what she wants.0-
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