![]() ![]() This second meaning is the one used in the song. ![]() Oh yes, I know you’re always "happy", but is it real or just a façade? (By putting the word HAPPY in quotations, I mean that I don’t think you are really happy, or at least I’m not sure) Shakespeare said: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."Ģ- To express that something is not exactly that: PUT ‘EM IN QUOTATIONS= "Quotations" are punctuation marks used at the beginning and end of a word or sentence: " "ġ- To quote the literal words somebody said or wrote: Listen, if you love her, better tell her right now. In colloquial English we often say "you better" or simply "better" instead of "you’d better": If you feel so bad, you’d better go to the doctor = you should go to the doctor. The expression YOU HAD BETTER + "infinitive without TO" means: SHOULD (we use it to give advise): They look like problems to you, but if you put them in perspective you’ll realise they’re not real problems, it’s all in your head.īETTER PUT ‘EM= You’d better put them. "Your so called problems" are problems that are not real. SO CALLED= Incorrectly or falsely called (usually spelled with a hyphen: so-called). TAKE ALL OF YOUR.= The first paragraph is actually just one sentence, so we should read: "take all of your wasted honour, your past frustration and your problems and put them in quotations". ![]()
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