More gravy
In 'A Christmas Carol',
"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
what is intended by the bold-typed part? It is said that gravy is a play on words, but I just can't get the slightest clue about the meaning of the the sentence itself. Please help!
Top answer
Scrooge is referring to his distressing vision of a ghost. He is suggesting that the ghost is just an hallucination caused by stomach upset. The play on words is 'gravy/grave': the ghost came not from its grave but from the gravy that Scrooge ate.
- Scrooge is referring to his distressing vision of a ghost.
- He is suggesting that the ghost is just an hallucination caused by stomach upset.
- The play on words is 'gravy/grave': the ghost came not from its grave but from the gravy that Scrooge ate.
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Scrooge is referring to his distressing vision of a ghost. He is suggesting that the ghost is just an hallucination caused by stomach upset. The play on words is 'gravy/grave': the ghost came not from its grave but from the gravy that Scrooge ate.
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