Meaning of a cigar is just a cigar | Babel Free

Definitions

The matter is simple and straightforward.

idiomatic

Examples

“There's plenty of time for dating later on—look at Janet Reno. Okay, don’t look at Janet Reno. However, assuming that you are seeking romance (and that a cigar is just a cigar), your best bet is to warn would-be companions of potential scheduling snafus ahead of time.”

“The poem, as you see it, is like the society of the People of the Kilikang before the missionaries arrived, as I read them. That’s how you see it. But to see it that way you had to play some tricks on yourself. You had to ignore this and exaggerate that, overlook this and look beyond that, take it that a cigar is just a cigar here but that a stovepipe hat is a symbol there, rearrange widely distributed elements into a mosaic of your own aspect, for no verbal form is a ball bearing; there are always loose ends and parts that do not quite fit.”

“Are self-improvement ideas all futile? Are we simply being manipulated by the Identity System when we try to reach our goals or when we are listening to our bodies and feel that we need to exercise? David’s question hit the nail on the head. The purpose of bridging and mapping is to ensure that a cigar is just a cigar, i.e., that the uncomplicated need to exercise, in this case, remains pure, direct, and simple.”

“As a child in elementary school, I was very awkward and paranoid, especially in that particular classroom. It is possible that the “demon” represented my fears of not being accepted like the fellow kids because I was different. It is also possible that “a cigar ‘is’ just a “cigar” as Freud would say.”

“Historically awesome art always means something different from what it superficially appears to suggest—and if future readers can’t convince themselves that the ideas they’re consuming are less obvious than whatever simple logic indicates, that book will disappear. The possibility that a cigar is just a cigar doesn’t work with literary criticism, and that’s amplified by the passage of time.”

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