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Ljswave Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Would you explain a below line ?

Would you explain a below line ?
Don't tell me you guys never got the Led out.
I think it means like Don't tell me you guys can't remember the Led out of your memory. right?

I put the lines below to see the situation well.
The lines go like:
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The first thing you do when you start a band is
talk about your influences.
That's how you figure out what kind of band to be. So who do you like?
-Blondie?
-Christina Aguilera.
-Who? No. Come on. What?
-you, Shortstop.
-Puff Daddy.

-Wrong. Billy?
-Liza Minnelli?
What are you...? You guys!
This project is called "Rock Band".
I'm talking about bands that rock.
Led Zeppelin.
Don't tell me you guys never got the Led out.
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant?
  

Top answer

Never listened to, or considered, Led Zeppelin for the project.

  • Never listened to, or considered, Led Zeppelin for the project.
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4 Answers
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Never listened to, or considered, Led Zeppelin for the project.
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It's also perhaps a pun.

To someone who is slow:
Get the lead out! (Hurry up! Get the lead out of your ****!) --- To get rid of the lead weights!

So perhaps, "You mean you never got Led Zeppelin out of your system?!"

I also agree with Vorpar: Perhaps, "You mean you never got the Led Zeppelin albums out?!"
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Avangi"You mean you never got Led Zeppelin out of your system?!"
Thank a lot for your explanation. I got it.
then I got a question from " You mean you never got Led Zeppelin out of your system."
What does "your system" mean?
I guess it means " in your memory(=head)" , right?
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Right!
"To get something out of your system" is a well-established idiom.
Strangely enough, the positive side of the coin, "To still have something in your system" is not used as an idiom.
(It's used literally to indicate that some physical thing (non-indigenous, such as a medication) is still in your body; or in the case of your computer "[memory] sy

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