Meaning of a cigar is a cigar | Babel Free

Definitions

Phrase. [C2]

Examples

“Whenever I have dreamed that memory during the many Thanksgiving vacations I now have hunted in Kentucky, I’ve wondered why I did. It contains no Daliesque symbols. It’s a documentary dream. A cigar is a cigar. But you don’t need a shingle hanging in Vienna to know it has to do with pondering whether hunting, like war, qualifies as justifiable murder.”

“Having read the book, I speak for all those who – unless it’s a Rudyard Kipling poem when you know for certain that a cigar is a cigar – have trouble figuring out the hidden meaning of a poem, or even if there was a hidden meaning, thanks for the back stories, Jack.”

“My family is salt-of-the-earth, and certainly not the type to sleep with crystals under their beds to summon some universal wisdom or study their chakras. To them, a cigar is a cigar, and life is pretty straightforward.”

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