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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Meaning?

a doctor and a patient coversation:

sentence : "every time i ask you who you have to bring back you pass out on me again"

i want to know the exact meaning of "pass out on me"?
  

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pass out on me = lose consciousness, faint in front of me/(in my presence) I don't think it's meant to be understood literally there. I take it to mean 'fail to do what was agreed upon'.

— Ivanhr

  • pass out on me = lose consciousness, faint in front of me/(in my presence) I don't think it's meant to be understood literally there.
  • I take it to mean 'fail to do what was agreed upon'.
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pass out on me = lose consciousness, faint in front of me/(in my presence)

I don't think it's meant to be understood literally there. I take it to mean 'fail to do what was agreed upon'.
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Sounds more like a monologue! Emotion: rolleyes

Where better to pass out than in the doctor's office?
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yea I agree with ivanhr it must be something they agreed upon.

I think the doctor might be telling the person to bring himself back, in a more healthy condition.
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We really need some context.
"Every time I ask you who you have to bring back" sounds like something said at a seance. Is this a doctor or a medium? I can't understand the remark in a medical context.
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AvangiWe really need some context.

"Every time I ask you who you have to bring back" sounds like something said at a seance. Is this a doctor or a medium? I can't understand the remark in a medical context.
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Grammar Geek like a seance!
Yep. "pass out" = "go into a trance"??? The patient is a medium.

No. I don't get the joke either.

CJ

Actually, no. It's the Marshal who has to bring back (to justice, I assume) some "dangerous woman".

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What joke?
How did you find this?
Why did anon say that Jack is a doctor?
I'm lost.
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