[Ads-l] "couldn't be more than" = '(emphatically) is'

[Dan Goncharoff]

Didn't she mean, "couldn't be less than" (mutual)?


On Mar 15, 2018 6:54 PM, "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2018 _The Young and the Restless_ (CBS-TV): Oh, you're father's never going
> to fully trust me with anything. And the feeling couldn't be more than
> mutual.
>
> Perh. dumbly expanded from "couldn't be more mutual."
>
> JL
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