[Ads-l] to "friend-zone"

[Jonathan Lighter]

https://www.studysmarter.us/explanations/english-literature/poets/the-scrutiny/
:

You may have heard of, experienced, or initiated someone being 'friend
zoned ', 'dumped', or 'ghosted', and Richard Lovelace proves to be a
stone-cold heartbreaker with his poem 'The Scrutiny' (1642).

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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