What is the meaning of "clucking with"?
Once my appetite returned and I was released from the hospital, Oprah came calling. One of her producers phoned out of the blue saying she wanted us on her show. Lisa and me and even Samantha Boyd. The three Final Girls united at last. Lisa, of course, agreed. So did Samantha, which was a surprise, considering how she was already practicing her vanishing act. Unlike Lisa, she never tried to contact me after Pine Cottage. She was as elusive as my memories.
I too said yes, even though the thought of sitting before an audience of housewives clucking with sympathy almost made me plummet back down the rabbit hole of anorexia. But I wanted to meet my fellow Final Girls face-to-face. Especially Samantha. By that point, I was ready to see the alternative to Lisa’s exhausting openness.
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This is "clucking" - what the ladies sound like.
- This is "clucking" - what the ladies sound like.
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'To cluck' is to make a noise like a hen. Here, it is being used as a metaphor for the way an audience might react when they hear a person on a TV stage describing their personal problems. The audience cluck like hens with sympathy but maybe not with understanding.
It's not a phrase I would use carelessly - or here at all - because a hen is female and there's a slight implicatio
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