Language [BBC MP3 for IELTS Listening Sec.4] Make my day! (Keep your English up to date.P001)

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Make my day!

영화배우 클린트 이스트우드가 영화속에서 던진 한마디가 유행어가 되어버린 그런 어휘입니다. (한국에서도 인기 드라마나 개콘이나 개그야에서 유행어가 속출하고 그것이 유행하듯이... )

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Make my day

Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don't think we pick up very many sounds and grammatical instructions from the films we see ? but the catchphrases. Right from the earliest days of film, catchphrases have been extracted from the film medium and "make my day" I think is one of the most famous.

Well, you may remember it, it's Clint Eastwood, isn't it, playing Dirty Harry in the film Sudden Impact. He invites an armed thug to take him on and Clint Eastwood is holding a very big gun ? so he's just waiting for the thug to do something horrible, and he says "go ahead, make my day!".

Well it just caught on, it spread in meaning ? people started using it, of course not with guns in their hands, they started using it within a sort of ironic circumstance. To say "make my day" means "do something that'll really please me". It implies a really big deal or something like that. In fact Clint Eastwood himself, when he was being elected mayor of Carmel, went round the whole of his little town, his little city, with a T-shirt on - "elect me mayor ? make my day!"

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