[Ads-l] "Be strung out (behind [NP])" = "be in love (with [NP])"

[Joel Berson]

There goes my no-oseInto your ro-ose ...
Joel

      From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
 To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
 Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:10 AM
 Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "Be strung out (behind [NP])" = "be in love (with [NP])"
   
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The HDAS def. was to be "infatuated (with)." Too narrow?


IMO, that nails it. As the very next sentence in the op.cit. states,

"His nose was so wide open for her a Mack truck could fit inside."

Is that infatuation? Or is that "infatuation?"


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