Timeline for What does 'Friend a mine got his oil checked with a horn dipstick and that was all she wrote." mean?
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| Nov 11, 2016 at 18:43 | vote | accept | whitecap | ||
| Nov 11, 2016 at 17:25 | comment | added | Peter | @stangdon +1 Yes, the phrase means "something came to an end" and I've taken it from the context to mean the rider was killed, it could also mean "it was really bad". Either way, the outcome was not good. | |
| Nov 11, 2016 at 15:22 | comment | added | stangdon | @whitecap - Yes, it's an idiom. I don't think "that was all she wrote" necessarily means someone was killed. In this context, yes, probably, because the speaker is comparing his own injuries to someone else's experience and saying that he was lucky, but in general it just means "and that was the sudden end of (whatever it was)." | |
| Nov 11, 2016 at 10:30 | comment | added | whitecap | come to think of it, is it because the finality that the phrase 'and that was all she wrote' gives off? | |
| Nov 11, 2016 at 10:15 | comment | added | whitecap | I am wondering how 'and that was all she wrote' gives off the meaning of being killed. Is it some kind of an idiom? | |
| Nov 11, 2016 at 9:45 | history | answered | Peter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |