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A sentence in a novel reads: Mum said she wasn’t paying for another phone because I was pathologically incapable of looking after it, and she was twenty-four hours a day losing the plot about money anyway, so, job done.
What does the last expression ‘job done’ mean here?
A sentence in a novel reads: Mum said she wasn’t paying for another phone because I was pathologically incapable of looking after it, and she was twenty-four hours a day losing the plot about money anyway, so, job done.
What does the last expression ‘job done’ mean here?
What does the last expression ‘job done’ mean here?
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That's an interesting sentence. It's a little "all over the place" like a stream of consciousness and somewhat sarcastic too, but if I were to interpret the meaning of "job done", I would say it means something like "I tried all I could to get a new phone, but my Mum isn't going to get one for me. So there's nothing left to be done there. Job done. Time to move on to the next thing..."
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That's an interesting sentence. It's a little "all over the place" like a stream of consciousness and somewhat sarcastic too, but if I were to interpret the meaning of "job done", I would say it means something like "I tried all I could to get a new phone, but my Mum isn't going to get one for me. So there's nothing left to be done there. Job done. Time to move on to the next thing..."
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