Timeline for Parsing "I was in the soup now good."
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| Apr 21, 2021 at 16:21 | comment | added | Quuxplusone | And a more idiomatic colloquial rendering would be: "I was in the soup now — but good!" (I've always treated "but good" as an interpolation similar to "X — no kidding!" or at best an intensifier like "X, by God"; but the citations on Wiktionary come down surprisingly strongly on the side of "X but good" with no comma or dash or anything.) McPhee is simply leaving off the "but." | |
| Apr 21, 2021 at 0:40 | comment | added | Cody Gray | For what it's worth, the modern/correct English equivalent is: "I was now well in the soup", where, as has been mentioned, "in the soup" is an idiomatic phrase meaning that one is in serious trouble. Less idiomatically: "I was now in big trouble." More common, also idiomatic: "I was now in deep $#!^." | |
| S Apr 20, 2021 at 12:59 | history | suggested | user29750 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2021 at 11:45 | comment | added | rackandboneman | I guess, this could misleadingly be parsed as "The soup, that presently is good, was deficient at the time I was in it" :) | |
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| Apr 19, 2021 at 15:04 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1384160859602128906 | ||
| Apr 19, 2021 at 13:15 | history | edited | ColleenV | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2021 at 13:09 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 19, 2021 at 6:42 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Apr 19, 2021 at 6:38 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 35 | |
| Apr 19, 2021 at 6:28 | comment | added | James K | If you can add the link to the article (as I've done), it can help us understand the full context. | |
| Apr 19, 2021 at 6:27 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2021 at 5:26 | answer | added | SoronelHaetir | timeline score: 28 | |
| Apr 19, 2021 at 5:03 | history | asked | user126190 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |