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Vera2007 · Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 25

Rachel: Well, I mean, do you think you can ever have both? Y'know? Someone who's like, who's like your best friend, but then also can make your toes curl?

1. Does "can make your toes curl" have other meanings besides the literal meaning?
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Phoebe: Okay, they're just talking...

Ross: Yeah, well, does he look upset? Does he look like he was just told to shove anything?

2. What does"to shove anything" mean here?

Thanks a lot!

bud · Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 2111 Location: New Jersey, US

1. Not really. She's talking, though, about the physical feelings that would make her toes curl, not the simple fact that they curl. The whole sentence is referring to a relationship that is great both emotionally and physically.

2. It's a reference to an expression: "Shove it up your a s s!" It's so well known, in fact, that often people shorten it to, "Shove it!" It's an expression used for anger, defiance, scorn, etc.

kerstin · Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 241 Location: Taiwan

Is *shove it* just an expression or *put anger out on something*?
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Thanks

Vera2007 · Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 25

After bud's explanation, I looked the expression up in the dictionary, and i found this:

Shove/stick sth up your ass! MAINLY US OFFENSIVE
used to tell someone angrily that you do not want or need something that they are offering you or telling you to do:
If she asks me to work over the weekend I'll tell her to shove it up her ass!

bud · Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 2111 Location: New Jersey, US

CP · Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 2875 Location: California

1. Toes curling also refers to what some people say happens automatically when someone is s e x u a l l y aroused.

2. "Take This Job and Shove It" is a Johnny Paycheck song, whose chorus goes:

Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more
My woman done left and took all the reasons
I was working for
You better not try to stand in my way
As I'm a-walking out the door.
Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more

Johnny Paycheck, not surprisingly, is a Country and Western singer. His song just put into music what many people have said or have wanted to say to their bosses ever since there were bosses.
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