apropos of nothing …
Filed under: — Joan @ 5:49 am
Here’s a great line from a self-helpy book I’m reading (A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman):
As if she knows what I’m thinking she says, “That’s the way they want us - predictable and appropriate. Trouble is, we end up being apropos of nothing.”
Thank you, Mom, for raising me to be neither predictable nor appropriate!!
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So I’m a little confused - in the quote, who is the “they”, and who is the “we”?
Comment by Fat Charlie the Archangel — 10/11/2006 @ 10:53 am
They is “the man” or the establishment, baby.
capiche?
1940s slang, from It. capisci? “do you understand?” (also coppish, kabish, capeesh, etc.).
Comment by Joan — 10/11/2006 @ 1:43 pm
“Excuse me - are you trying to say “capiche”? Because, if you are, don’t say it - it hurts my ears when you say it”. — Steve Martin in _My Blue Heaven_
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