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missdaredevil
Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 1670 Location: Ask me
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:21 am Post subject: cracked up to be |
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He realized that being a superhero isn't all *cracked up* to be.
Could anyone explain that?
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iitimone7
Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 400 Location: Indiana, USA
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:46 am Post subject: cracked up |
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in your example, it means that being a superhero was not only what you see in the comics. it's hard, demanding, secretive, lonely...
new example - liz thought that being a director of the play at her school would allow her to become famous at her school. her name would be on all of the posters and publicity that would be posted all over the school, as well as in her local newpaper, local tv program, and billboards around her small town. liz had no idea how much work she would have to put into the play...she had more jobs than she could do by herself and it became a very stressful job before the day of the production arrived! you could say that liz being the director of the school play was not all that she thought it was cracked up to be.
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Blossom
Joined: 30 May 2005 Posts: 291 Location: Beijing China
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject: Cracked up to be |
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Like FEMA was not all that it was cracked up to be when it came to dealing with Katrina |
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missdaredevil
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:47 am Post subject: |
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like "an easy job"? |
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iitimone7
Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 400 Location: Indiana, USA
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:11 am Post subject: easy |
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an easy ____________ (fill in the blank with anything...job, etc.)
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bud
Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 2111 Location: New Jersey, US
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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It's more like it is not as wonderful as you thought it would be. |
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