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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

'WALKING ON EGGS'

Hi,
I don't understand the meaning of this expression on these lyrics from a song of Dylan:

'What good am I if I'm WALKING ON EGGS, if I'm wild with excitement and wet betwen the legs? If I'm right in the thick of it and I don't know why, what good am I?

Someone know it?
Thanks, Jo.
  

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There is an expression walking on eggshells , which means you walk very, very carefully in a metaphorical sense. You choose your words carefully, for example, if you are talking to someone know to have a bad temper. Or you make sure you don't do anything that could cause the other person to be upset.

— BarbaraPA

  • There is an expression walking on eggshells , which means you walk very, very carefully in a metaphorical sense.
  • You choose your words carefully, for example, if you are talking to someone know to have a bad temper.
  • Or you make sure you don't do anything that could cause the other person to be upset.
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There is an expression walking on eggshells, which means you walk very, very carefully in a metaphorical sense. You choose your words carefully, for example, if you are talking to someone know to have a bad temper. Or you make sure you don't do anything that could cause the other person to be upset.
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"Wet between the legs" seems to be a play on "wet behind the ears".

"If I'm over-cautious (walking on eggshells), irrational (wild with excitement), naive (wet between the legs), and uncomprehending (in the middle – "thick" – of all the excitement, without knowing why), what good am I?"

It's a version of Kipling's poem "If", in essence.

MrP
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