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I need to know "gone-dead, bone-superior". An American and an English woman are talking about the goods of being English and American. She is asking him to tell her what are the good features of America that England should envy (they have previously discussed about the superiority behaviour that both states actually have and that they hate in each other, but they are still discussing about it). I actually think I get the meaning of the words, but as I do not find them in any dictionary I need to play safe.
“Well, Miss Cherrell, we know that we have qualities and energy and faith and opportunities that you just ought to envy; and when you don’t do it, we feel we’ve no use for that kind of gone-dead, bone-superior attitude."
Reference: Maid in Waiting by John Galsworthy
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“Well, Miss Cherrell, we know that we have qualities and energy and faith and opportunities that you just ought to envy; and when you don’t do it, we feel we’ve no use for that kind of gone-dead, bone-superior attitude."
Reference: Maid in Waiting by John Galsworthy
Thank you!