Timeline for Is the idiom "what price [something]?" used here in the sense of "how about [something]?" - or not?
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 16:19 | vote | accept | CowperKettle | ||
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| Nov 26, 2014 at 5:19 | comment | added | CowperKettle | @Mari-LouA: So in your understanding Erik Kowal's answer is the right one? I'm personally at a loss, there's such a variety of answers. | |
| Nov 26, 2014 at 1:02 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | From the answers given, it seems to me only Robusto and Erik Kowal have watched the actual clip. When the German officer fails to see any familiarity, it's clear that Leslie Howard, who plays the anthropologist, is taken aback, startled, and bemused by his guest's apparent obliviousness and inability to see any parallel. What price will Europe pay for Goebbel's propaganda machine, especially as it seems to be working so efficiently. | |
| Nov 24, 2014 at 6:20 | answer | added | Erik Kowal | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 23, 2014 at 4:37 | comment | added | Hot Licks | The use is somewhat inconsistent with the by then familiar idiom exemplified by "What price glory?" (meaning how much has X cost us). But if you read it as "How much is Goebbels going to cost us?" I suppose it makes sense. | |
| Nov 23, 2014 at 4:11 | answer | added | Ellie K | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 22, 2014 at 15:43 | answer | added | Robusto | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 22, 2014 at 15:01 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 17:22 | answer | added | Papa Poule | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 20:56 | answer | added | Hellion | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Nov 19, 2014 at 10:17 | history | bounty started | CowperKettle | ||
| S Nov 19, 2014 at 10:17 | history | notice added | CowperKettle | Draw attention | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 23:25 | comment | added | Dan Bron | Might this be unknotted quickly by understanding "What price" as "How do you rate", and therefore "What price Goebbels?" as "Oh? How do you rate Goebbels, then?" | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 20:22 | answer | added | Spehro 'speff' Pefhany | timeline score: 3 | |
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