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

[Jonathan Lighter]

If that's what the scriptwriters meant, that's what he would have said.

JL

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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