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What does "hollow shell" mean?

I heard this vocabulary in sitcom "Friends"?
I can't find it in any dictationary?
What does it mean?
Thanks
  

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[nq:1]I heard this vocabulary in sitcom "Friends"? [/nq] Try one that isn't targeted at secretaries. [/nq] Look up "hollow".

  • [nq:1]I heard this vocabulary in sitcom "Friends"?
  • [/nq] Try one that isn't targeted at secretaries.
  • [/nq] Look up "hollow".
  • Now look up "shell".
  • Taken together surprise, surprise that's what it means.
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[nq:1]I heard this vocabulary in sitcom "Friends"? I can't find it in any dictationary?[/nq]
Try one that isn't targeted at secretaries.
[nq:1]What does it mean?[/nq]
Look up "hollow". Now look up "shell". Taken together surprise, surprise that's what it means.
"Empty shell" is probably an equally common collocation, by the way.

Now look up collocation...
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Ross H
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[nq:1]I heard this vocabulary in sitcom "Friends"? I can't find it in any dictationary? What does it mean? Thanks[/nq]
"Hollow shell" usually refers to the woman you've been married to for
25 years or longer. (I just coined this neat definition.)

Reinhold (Rey) Aman
Famed Coiner of Words & Phrases
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[nq:2]I heard this vocabulary in sitcom "Friends"? I can't find it in any dictationary? What does it mean? Thanks[/nq]
[nq:1]"Hollow shell" usually refers to the woman you've been married to for 25 years or longer. (I just coined this neat definition.) Reinhold (Rey) Aman Famed Coiner of Words & Phrases[/nq]
Boy, I really got to you didn't I?
Cheers, Sage
Who never fell for Who's W
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[nq:1]Cheers, Sage Who never fell for Who's Who[/nq]
Sour grapes, obviously. The genuine Who's Who wouldn't touch a schmucky Canuckie (Just coined!) like you. They have standards, you know.

Reinhold (Rey) Aman
Biographee in the Real Thing
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[nq:2]Cheers, Sage Who never fell for Who's Who[/nq]
[nq:1]Sour grapes, obviously. The genuine Who's Who wouldn't touch a schmucky Canuckie (Just coined!) like you. They have standards, you know. Reinhold (Rey) Aman Biographee in the Real Thing[/nq]
I have to say you are relatively amusing. Some of the time.

(Schmucky Canuckie? Hmm. I raise you with ***** yankee ... and I j

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