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Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...)



 
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Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...) #1 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:07 pm   Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...)
 

Hi, i read a funny sentence , as follows:

"the guy on TV is really cold, the music he made is cool. He smokes while playing the piano..."

Do you believe that he is really smoking while playing piano? :roll:
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Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...) #2 (permalink) Thu Jul 27, 2006 16:41 pm   Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...)
 

Yes, it wouldn't be unusual to see that in bars or night clubs (in those where smoking is still allowed, that is!). Piano players can smoke and drink in those places. But they wouldn't do that in a concert hall, for example!

Now, seeing smoking as cool is very debatable nowadays, unless for a bunch of foolish teenagers :roll: !
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Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...) #3 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:55 am   Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...)
 

Hi,Conchita:
I think they just wanted to say" the guy is really cool and very good at playing piano," don't you think so? Of course , players are forbidden to smoke on a formal concert. So it was just a kidding expression, i guess. :roll:
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Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...) #4 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:52 am   Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...)
 

Hi FangFang

I think the writer of your sentence was playing with words and ideas --- playing with the literal meanings and the figurartive meanings. :D

A slang/informal meaning for "to smoke": To play or perform energetically

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Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...) #5 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:55 am   Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...)
 

Yankee wrote:
Hi FangFang

I think the writer of your sentence was playing with words and ideas.

A slang/informal meaning for "to smoke": To play or perform energetically

Amy


Thanks, Amy, for a new expression. My, the complex depths and coils of the English language!
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Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...) #6 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:37 am   Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...)
 

Yankee wrote:
I think the writer of your sentence was playing with words and ideas.

A slang/informal meaning for "to smoke": To play or perform energetically

Hi

In my first language there is a special expression used when you want to emphasize that someone does/is doing some skillful and/or talent-and-inspiration-required job at highest level – but making impression that it’s being done absolutely effortlessly; as if it were child's play

What English expressions / idioms (except 'to smoke') can I use to express this impression?
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Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...) #7 (permalink) Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:21 am   Slang! (He smokes while playing the piano...)
 

Yankee wrote:
Hi FangFang

I think the writer of your sentence was playing with words and ideas --- playing with the literal meanings and the figurartive meaning

Amy



Thanks, Yankee! He did ! :D
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