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Ryotaro Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

You saved the fork and you got yourself a pair

The following dialog is from the TV series Curb your Enthusiasm.

Laly (main charactor) wear splints on his finger with a plastic knife, and the doctor said to him...

"Lose the splint, unless you saved the fork and you got yourself a pair."

What did the doctor mean by that?

Thanks,

Ryo
  

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Hi, It sounds like it means that you need both a fork and a knife to make a good splint, not simply a knife. This kind of remark is really only meaningful in the context it is part of. Clive .

— Clive

  • Hi, It sounds like it means that you need both a fork and a knife to make a good splint, not simply a knife.
  • This kind of remark is really only meaningful in the context it is part of.
  • Clive .
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Hi,

It sounds like it means that you need both a fork and a knife to make a good splint, not simply a knife.

This kind of remark is really only meaningful in the context it is part of.

Clive

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