Three glass jars of different sizes glow amber on rumpled turquoise cloth.

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Ellen Kishmore

Drew, it was real, and it was great, and it was really great.

— Elizabethtown  ·  2005

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker stacks up praise in a slightly tumbling way: real, great, then really great. The repeated words make it sound sincere rather than polished, as if the feeling is too big for tidy phrasing and the emphasis is the whole point.

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