evermore · right-where-you-left-me · 2020-12-11
right where you left me
Connections
One word kept twice where the idiom would drop it
Midnights the-great-war “The Great War” — Two ordinary English expressions are altered so that the word hairpin survives in both. Neither substitution is the idiomatic form.
The documented history the word carries
no counterpart identified yet — Mid-twentieth-century slang for disclosure or signalling of homosexuality, recorded in historical glossaries and independently noted by the American Historical Association.
Annotated lines
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Script passages under research
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right-where-you-left-me lines hairpin-substitution–hairpin-substitution
hair pin drop
echoes dialogue of Established interpretation
One word kept twice where the idiom would drop it. Two ordinary English expressions are altered so that the word hairpin survives in both. Neither substitution is the idiomatic form.
alludes to the event Documented fact
The documented history the word carries. Mid-twentieth-century slang for disclosure or signalling of homosexuality, recorded in historical glossaries and independently noted by the American Historical Association.