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JCDenton Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

Question about Santa Claus..:-)

Hey guys,

In one christmas movie I heard....Santa Claus is coming to town! He's making a list, He's checking it twice, Gonna find out who's naughty or nice...:-) Hey that's cool..:-), but what does it mean that his is checking his list twice? Have this a special meaning or it's just a pun ?

thanks

with regards

JCD
  

Top answer

I don't believe it has any special meaning. He just wants to be sure who has been a good boy/girl.. It does, on the other hand, rhyme with 'nice'.

— Zerox

  • I don't believe it has any special meaning.
  • He just wants to be sure who has been a good boy/girl..
  • It does, on the other hand, rhyme with 'nice'.
  • Maybe that's why it's being used.
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I don't believe it has any special meaning. He just wants to be sure who has been a good boy/girl.. It does, on the other hand, rhyme with 'nice'. Maybe that's why it's being used.
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checking his list twice = examining the names of the naughty children and the nice children on his list two times, just to be sure that everything on the list is correct.

A related expression: To double-check something = To check it two times = To check it twice.

CJ
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Poets often something only to make a rhyme possible. I think it's a pretty good choice, here.
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I agree.
Other alternatives might have been;

He's making a list,
He's eating his mice
Gonna find out who's naughty or nice



He's making a list,
He profits from vice
Gonna find out who's naughty or nice
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