[lit-ideas] Re: Facing the Music
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- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:43:01 -0500
In a message dated 1/22/2015 11:04:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx quotes:
"The earliest citation I can find for the phrase is from The New Hampshire
Statesman & State Journal, August 1834."
"Will the editor of the Courier explain this black affair. We want no
equivocation - 'face the music' this time."
It is ironic that the writer in The New Hampshire Statesman & State
Journal, while 'wanting no equivocation', revels in one, since he does not
explain what music is to be faced _that_ time.
It is also scary that the the author in The New Hampshire Statesman &
State Journal uses 'scare quotes': "'face the music' this time."
Usually, the implicature of the scare quotes is that the expression is
phony.
E.g. the "phony" war. "Do you want some 'cake'?", etc.
Cheers,
Speranza
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