Cracked gold theatrical mask beside a low cluster of red poppies on dark teal

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Jeffrey Anderson

One more date we would’ve had a Greek tragedy on our hands.

— Soapdish ‧ 1991

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker suggests a relationship was heading for catastrophe on the scale of classical drama, and that one more date would have tipped it over. The exaggeration is wry: mismatched people are cast as doomed tragic figures, and stopping in time is presented as a narrow escape.

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