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Longforest Posted 18 years ago
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make sport of
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00 What does the red part "to make sport of me" mean in this sentence? Thanks! 0-
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00 What does the red part "to make sport of me" mean in this sentence? Thanks! 0-
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0 Usually "make sport of" would mean to mock or to make fun of. 0-
- 0 Usually "make sport of" would mean to mock or to make fun of.
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0 Usually "make sport of" would mean to mock or to make fun of. In the scene you are quoting, however, I believe Potiphar's wife is (falsely) accusing Joseph of rape. 0-
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0 khoff, you may enjoy this: When my church put on the Joseph story as a Sunday School pageant, Potiphar's wife (who I believe is unnamed in the Bible) was named Lucille, for the sole purpose of allowing the boy who played Potiphar to stride briskly on stage and say "Oh Luuuucceee! I'm home!" (He took a lot of coaching to deliver the line just right, because of course he'd never heard it, but he
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0 That's pretty funny -- though, when you think about it, a pretty weird mixing of genres. It certainly never occurred to me to think of Potiphar and his wife as Lucy and Ricky! Did they make her a redhead? 0-
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0 I don't think so - it was just for the purposes of that one line. There was more time spend on the whole 7 skinny cows eating the 7 fat cows, etc. and forgiving his faithless brothers. 0-
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