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#2 (permalink) Tue Jun 09, 2009 14:18 pm all-singing all-dancing |
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| tyler is saying the younger generation is the most recent and current people who mean nothing. bit of a contradiction. all singing all dancing usually means the most advanced. |
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Dlowery New Member
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#3 (permalink) Tue Jun 09, 2009 16:06 pm Meaning of 'all-singing, all-dancing' |
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all-singing, all-dancing (humorous) very modern and technically advanced She showed us the new all-singing, all-dancing graphics software she'd bought for her computer. (from Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms)
You are very modern and technically advanced, but you still do not amount to much. _________________ con·text - The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning. |
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Milanya I'm here quite often ;-)
Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 923 Location: Texas, USA (at present)
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#4 (permalink) Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:36 am Meaning of 'all-singing, all-dancing' |
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First of all we are not all of those other things, such as our jobs and khakis. And in another place, Tyler says, "You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
So "decaying organic matter" = "crap"
Yet the whole message of Fight Club is "Don't be work robot or a job slave. Choose to Live!"
So the meaning of 'all-singing, all-dancing crap' is 'Yes, we will die, but since we cannot escape death, we had better choose to live, i.e. sing and dance.'
As the philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote, "It is not death that a man should fear. Let him fear instead never beginning to live." |
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Mcdermid New Member

Joined: 11 Dec 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Tokyo, Japan
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#5 (permalink) Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:59 am Meaning of 'all-singing, all-dancing' |
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| Smile .... interesting perceptions ..... |
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HamburgEnglish I'm here quite often ;-)

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