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Should the sentence "You never looked twice at me if he was in the room and then not at all if he wasn’t" be understood literally or is it a figurative expression?
Should the sentence "You never looked twice at me if he was in the room and then not at all if he wasn’t" be understood literally or is it a figurative expression?
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@utahh Figurative. “You never looked twice at me” means “you barely paid any attention to me.”
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