Expression: on this side idolatry

Haihao · #1 (permalink) Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:01 am *Expression: on this side idolatry*

Hi,

Could you please help me with:

Mister Micawber · #2 (permalink) Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:52 am *Expression: on this side idolatry*

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No-- Eglinton is saying that he very much admires (almost to a state of idolatry-- this is hyperbole, of course) the character, Hamlet (rather than Shakespeare, I think). On this side (of) = almost; not quite.
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