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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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KICKING THE HELL OUT OF ME

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00I would like to know if here Steinbeck refers to that Vermont God likes me so much that he works very hard to kick the evil out of me, or something like this:02br
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00'But this Vermont God cared enough about me to go to a lot of trouble kicking the hell out of me.'02br
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00Thanks in advance, jo. 0-
  

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12blockquote 11b 01font 00"Cared about" = liked --- if that is your question. 02font 02b 00 0-

— Philip

  • 12blockquote 11b 01font 00"Cared about" = liked --- if that is your question.
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Hi, I would like to know if here Steinbeck refers to that Vermont *** likes me so much that he works very hard to kick the evil out of me, or something like this: 'But this Vermont *** cared enough about me to go to a lot of trouble kicking the **** out of me.' Thanks in advance, jo.12blockquote

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0 In this book it is not '***' that he is talking about, but a person. 'Xing the **** out of someone' just means that you were doing X a lot, to extremes. Kicking the **** out of someone just means kicking/beating them a lot. So it was a sort of joke, someone he refers to as the Vermont *** used to physically attack him a lot, and it is funny because of the combination of ***/****. I can't remem
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0 Yes, this definitely is a joke.02br
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00"kicking the evil out of someone." literally means kicking the evil out from the person's body.02br
00"kicking the **** out of someone" means kicking the person very severely. 02br
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00By the way, isn't "~cared enough about me to go TO a lot of trouble~" supposed to be
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0 No, to go to a lot of trouble = to put in a lot of effort. 0-
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0 Thanks Nona The Brit,02br
00I've never heard of that up to now. I guess I learn something new each day.02br
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00By the way, this is completely off topic, but I got curious about the difference between "a lot of trouble" and "a lot of troubles".02br
00I guess the issue is the difference between "much trouble" and "many troubles" as well.02br
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0 YEs, that's right. 0-
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