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Stenka25 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
The meaning of "as crazy as the next man"
The following passage is from the website as follows:
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&tocp=8
To my knowledge, no large company has yet featured in a Hollywood movie without its boss embarking on a sinister plot to kill people (in the latest one I watched, Tilda Swinton somewhat predictably tried to kill George Clooney for exposing her company’s poisoning of people with pesticides). I hold no brief for large corporations, whose inefficiencies, complacencies and anti-competitive tendencies often drive me as crazy as the next man. Like Milton Friedman, I notice that ‘business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise.
I cannot figure out the exact meaning of ‘as – as the next man.’ The word ‘crazy’ does make the sense this author seems to make so I have no problem to make out the general meaning.
Still, the underlined part makes me wonder what it is. It seems that the quoted part makes some idiom, but I can’t work out what it means.
Wish for your responses.
(Can you give me another example sentence, if you can?)
Thanks in advance.
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&tocp=8
To my knowledge, no large company has yet featured in a Hollywood movie without its boss embarking on a sinister plot to kill people (in the latest one I watched, Tilda Swinton somewhat predictably tried to kill George Clooney for exposing her company’s poisoning of people with pesticides). I hold no brief for large corporations, whose inefficiencies, complacencies and anti-competitive tendencies often drive me as crazy as the next man. Like Milton Friedman, I notice that ‘business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise.
I cannot figure out the exact meaning of ‘as – as the next man.’ The word ‘crazy’ does make the sense this author seems to make so I have no problem to make out the general meaning.
Still, the underlined part makes me wonder what it is. It seems that the quoted part makes some idiom, but I can’t work out what it means.
Wish for your responses.
(Can you give me another example sentence, if you can?)
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
Hi Yes it is an idiom, meaning something like 'the same as anyone else' ... - As a serving soldier, I am as loyal as the next man Here is a dictionary reference ... com/definition/english/as-%E2%80%94%E2%80%94-as-the-next-man Dave
- Hi Yes it is an idiom, meaning something like 'the same as anyone else' ...
- - As a serving soldier, I am as loyal as the next man Here is a dictionary reference ...
- com/definition/english/as-%E2%80%94%E2%80%94-as-the-next-man Dave
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Hi
Yes it is an idiom, meaning something like 'the same as anyone else' ...
- As a serving soldier, I am as loyal as the next man
Here is a dictionary reference ...
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/as-%E2%80%94%E2%80%94-as-the-next-man
Yes it is an idiom, meaning something like 'the same as anyone else' ...
- As a serving soldier, I am as loyal as the next man
Here is a dictionary reference ...
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/as-%E2%80%94%E2%80%94-as-the-next-man
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