Timeline for Help to understand "only to be proved wrong straight away" in this sentence
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| Nov 16, 2018 at 2:50 | vote | accept | dan | ||
| Nov 16, 2018 at 2:38 | answer | added | JKreft | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 22:18 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | If you re-phrased that as "Lockhart, who was (immediately) proved wrong…", would that still not make sense? | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 10:20 | comment | added | TimR | A synonym is "and for all that, ...". | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 10:14 | comment | added | TimR | It is a kind of thwarting. The second statement runs counter to the first. It deflates the first. Or expresses a disappointment of some kind. Hopes dashed, or effort negated. Or assurances proved empty. And the counter-stroke often comes at the most inopportune moment. For Lockhart, he is proved wrong "straight away", that is, immediately. For the fisherman and the would-be concert goer, at the very last moment. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 10:09 | comment | added | dan | @Tᴚoɯɐuo Thanks! Now I got it. Is it a kind of sarcasm? | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 10:01 | comment | added | TimR | He slept overnight in the ticket line for the concert, only to be told when he reached the window that the tickets were sold out . Do you see the contrast, the "reverse spin"? He fought the big fish for two hours, hours that made his back ache, only to have the fish break the line just as it was about to be brought into the boat. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 10:01 | comment | added | TimR | What part of the phrase don't you understand? The passive? Only? straight away? | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 7:47 | history | asked | dan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |