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Newguest Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Make my own life
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An elderly guy asks a young man: Tell me now where you're coming from?
The young guy replies: Home. Just getting away. Make my own life.
I understand that his answer "home" is ironic as the elderly guy was probably asking about the name of the city.
Then he says that he's just getting away and will try to plan his life himself, right?
Finally the kid tells him where he's from and says: X. Little coal-mining town just this side of hell.
Is it some allusion that the town he comes from is like hell, but it's here on this side and the real hell is, say, underneath?
An elderly guy asks a young man: Tell me now where you're coming from?
The young guy replies: Home. Just getting away. Make my own life.
I understand that his answer "home" is ironic as the elderly guy was probably asking about the name of the city.
Then he says that he's just getting away and will try to plan his life himself, right?
Finally the kid tells him where he's from and says: X. Little coal-mining town just this side of hell.
Is it some allusion that the town he comes from is like hell, but it's here on this side and the real hell is, say, underneath?
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The town he is from is not ****, but he feels it's close enough to being unbearable (for him) that it's only one step away it. A similar expression might be "Just this side of nowhere" meaning it's very remote. When your'e there, not you're not "nowhere" but it can feel that way.
- The town he is from is not ****, but he feels it's close enough to being unbearable (for him) that it's only one step away it.
- A similar expression might be "Just this side of nowhere" meaning it's very remote.
- When your'e there, not you're not "nowhere" but it can feel that way.
- He will try to do whatever he thinks his path in life will take him, instead of following whatever his family/friends/people in his hometown think he should do.
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The town he is from is not ****, but he feels it's close enough to being unbearable (for him) that it's only one step away it.
A similar expression might be "Just this side of nowhere" meaning it's very remote. When your'e there, not you're not "nowhere" but it can feel that way.
He will try to do whatever he thinks his path in life will take him, instead of following whatever h
A similar expression might be "Just this side of nowhere" meaning it's very remote. When your'e there, not you're not "nowhere" but it can feel that way.
He will try to do whatever he thinks his path in life will take him, instead of following whatever h
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Grammar GeekThe town he is from is not ****, but he feels it's close enough to being unbearable (for him) that it's only one step away it.A similar expression might be "Just this side of nowhere" meaning it's very remote. When your'e there, not you're not "nowhere" but it can feel that way.He will try to do whatever he thinks his path in life will take him, instead of fol
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