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no go

2017年08月23日 | 英語の本を読む

村上春樹の "Hear The Wind Sing" を読んでいます。
“Got a favor to ask,” the Rat said.
“What kind?”
“I want you to meet someone.”
“A girl?”
The Rat hesitated before nodding yes.
“Why ask me?”
“Anyone else around?” the Rat shot back, launching into his sixth Jim Beam. “Oh yeah, do you own a suit and tie?”
...
When I drove up to J’s Bar at 2 p.m. on the dot, the Rat was sitting on the guardrail engrossed in a copy of Kazantzakis’s The Last Temptation of Christ. “So where is she?” I asked.
The Rat closed the book and slipped into the seat beside me. He put his sunglasses on.
“It’s a no go,” he said.
No go?”
“Yeah, I gave it up.”
Ratが主人公に会わせたいと言っていた女性が来ないので "no go" は "no-show" を連想させる表現ですが、辞書にこの表現が出ているか調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Not ready or not functioning properly.: It was repeatedly stuck and no go until 11:15 a.m. when I headed to Lakeland College to teach the first of my classes in Writing Creative Nonfiction.
・Urban Dictionary: when there is no chance something will happen - theres no way the idea is GOing anywhere.
Friend 1: you want to go get a beer with john after work?
Friend 2: thats a no go, john is a total wacko.

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