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RedRose
Joined: 21 May 2004
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 Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:28 am Post subject: Run its course |
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Dear Teachers,
Today I watched Two and A half Men in which something I didn't get. Here is the conversation.
Alan:Somebody dumped Charlie?
The maid Berta: Broke his little black heart.It was pathetic.
Charlie: She didn't dump me.She had personal problems and moved
to Europe to, you know, find herself.
Berta: He wept.
Charlie: I did not. I felt the appropriate amount of sadness for a good rationship that had run its course.
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Teachers, What does run its course mean here? Thanks |
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2006
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Run its course |
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| RedRose wrote: |
Dear Teachers,
Today I watched Two and A half Men in which something I didn't get. Here is the conversation.
Alan:Somebody dumped Charlie?
The maid Berta: Broke his little black heart.It was pathetic.
Charlie: She didn't dump me.She had personal problems and moved
to Europe to, you know, find herself.
Berta: He wept.
Charlie: I did not. I felt the appropriate amount of sadness for a good rationship that had run its course.
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Teachers, What does run its course mean here? Thanks |
"had run its course" means 'had gone as far as it could'. Charlie felt, or at leat said, that the relationship was not going to develop any further and is over. |
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RedRose
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, Teacher 2006 |
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