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Good grief, it’s 4 o’clock! We’re supposed to be at grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving by 4:30. I’d better talk to her and explain my dilemma.
— A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving • 1973
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker notices the time and compares it with an approaching Thanksgiving commitment. Rather than leave the problem unspoken, they decide to explain it to their grandmother. The exclamation and precise times give a small scheduling difficulty the urgency of a personal dilemma.
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