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24 February
- Portuguese (Brazil) Near fluent
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What does Hello real americans! I wanna ask you the meaning of "now sadly out for the count" in this sentence below.
‘Here lies Miss Count, now sadly out for the count.' mean?
What does Hello real americans! I wanna ask you the meaning of "now sadly out for the count" in this sentence below.
‘Here lies Miss Count, now sadly out for the count.' mean?
‘Here lies Miss Count, now sadly out for the count.' mean?
This is writen in a tombstone.
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"Out for the count" was originally a phrase from boxing. When a fighter was knocked down, the referee would count for 10 seconds. If the fighter could not stand up after 10 seconds, they were "out for the count", and couldn't continue.
That tombstone is a pun: the woman's surname is 'Count' and she is dead (so can't continue in life). So Miss Count is... out for the count.
(It's not a really clever joke, but for a tombstone it's not too bad... 😉)
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@misael5667862871 this means “sleeping heavily” or “dead”
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Out for the count is a boxing term. It means the boxer was taken out (or killed). Whoever paid for this tombstone thought it was funny making a pun out of her last name, which is count. It's a bad joke.
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"Out for the count" was originally a phrase from boxing. When a fighter was knocked down, the referee would count for 10 seconds. If the fighter could not stand up after 10 seconds, they were "out for the count", and couldn't continue.
That tombstone is a pun: the woman's surname is 'Count' and she is dead (so can't continue in life). So Miss Count is... out for the count.
(It's not a really clever joke, but for a tombstone it's not too bad... 😉)
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- Portuguese (Brazil) Near fluent
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