Posted by alexandra_k on March 27, 2005, at 20:58:09
In reply to Lou's reply to 10derHeart-bgcheslimbrgr » 10derHeart, posted by Lou Pilder on March 27, 2005, at 20:13:26
> The idiom, [...the big cheese...]can mean diffeent things as to how people concieve cheese.
The speakers meaning would alter as different people would mean different things by their words.
The standard meaning would remain the same, however.
> What if the person using the idiom was thinking of the cheese as Limburger?
Is that a way of saying that the person using the idiom intended to convey an insult by using the expression? If so then the speakers meaning would be different from the standard meaning.
But we need to assume that what the speaker means by their words is the same as the standard meaning - unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
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