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User_gary Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Peanut around, hell freezes over

I guess I'll be pushing the peanut around till hell freezes over because after 16 years of totally Catholic education (pre-Vatican II), I only got 18 right.

Please explain to me the highlighted parts.
  

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"I will work for nothing forever". "To work for peanuts" means "to work for such a small salary nobody else will" "Until the **** freezes over" = "never".

— Fandorin

  • "I will work for nothing forever".
  • "To work for peanuts" means "to work for such a small salary nobody else will" "Until the **** freezes over" = "never".
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"I will work for nothing forever".

"To work for peanuts" means "to work for such a small salary nobody else will"
"Until the **** freezes over" = "never".
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Thanks for explaining the idioms, but I still cannot understand what it means in the sentence.

Particularly, what they mean by 'pushing the peanut around'
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