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"Those big-shot writers could never dig..."



 
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"Those big-shot writers could never dig..." #1 (permalink) Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:16 am   "Those big-shot writers could never dig..."
 

Hi

Could you please explain the given line to me?

"Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar."
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"Those big-shot writers could never dig..." #2 (permalink) Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:54 am   "Those big-shot writers could never dig..."
 

Hi, Tom:
Only from your sentence, I think it is just a joc expression. Maybe here, the salted peanuts and caviar have some fig meanings concerned. "salted peanuts" : common or general things for ordinary people; "caviar" :delicate or refined things for important people.
By the way,"be caviar to the general" means something which is too elegant to be apprieciated by ordinary people.
I just understand your sentence from an opposite way. Wink
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"Those big-shot writers could never dig..." #3 (permalink) Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:05 am   "Those big-shot writers could never dig..."
 

Hi Tom

FangFang has a good interpretation for salted peanuts and caviar.

If I tell you that dig is slang for understand, do you dig the sentence now? Laughing Wink

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