A word, a two word phrase actually, I have always read and heard, but never knew what it meant, from:
"A Lesson in Love": - Prima Donna
excerpt:
Nothing is for certain, that's what the showman said
First you must open the curtain
And stand them on their heads
There can be no inhibitions, no
prima donna ways
If you want to pass the audition
And times is tough these days
Merriam webster's dictionary def.:
[
prima donna]
Pronunciation: \ˌpri-mə-ˈdä-nə, ˌprē-\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural prima donnas
Etymology: Italian, literally, first lady
Date: 1782
1 : a principal female singer in an opera or concert organization
2 :
a vain or undisciplined person who finds it difficult to work under direction or as part of a team
#2 in Yellow seems to be the general usage I have encountered, and kind of by assumption and context,
I thought it meant a stuck-up spoiled brat that expected the red-carpet treatment right out of the shute, before paying their dues. Big assumption, that. I guess I wasn't too far off from the
yellow common usage, but
no surprise, my connotation in my own mind was longer and more verbose than the dictionary's denotation ! lol that fits.. that busts it ! lol.....
pretty close to Latin, from which I believe,
will the good Professor DQ correct me on spanish ?; but the
"Prima" part of
Prima Donna is verbatim from Latin romance-language origin to its spawn on Spanish
Prima.. I believe..the
Donna, I have not encountered in latin, but
my latin was limited to law class usages on context-specific terms.
Professor el Don Quixote ??
I really was not too far off was I ? In both my connotation, and my Latin-Spanish etymological lineage assumption ? Am I being a prima donna ? Hope not... it sounds like a girl or somethin'..... lol... and I ain't no girl Pilgrim, not by a da**-site ! - Which reminds me ( non sequiter pivot):
A fairly funny
REAL store name, on HWY 34,which ran out the end of the temporaily famous in '76 Big Thompson Canyon [road] and [river]. It overflowed so badly from rain in '76 at the rate of 12" in a 4-hour period, that it busted the
damn down below, overflowed it up above in Estes Park, Colo., and a 12-foot-high wall of water rampaged down the canyon.
It entirely wiped out an entire little burg at the intersection mid-canyon of the Big Thompson Highway, and Devil's Gulch Rd. running down from Estes Park perpendicular to the confluence with the canyon rd. This flood, in a phrase, was an incredible tragedy of nature versus man-made infrastructure, lives were lost, entire homes, whole portions of highway, and two police officers that gave their lives trying to warn campers to get out of the canyon.
A memorial was erected in their honour; in memorium for their bravery. I was visiting my soon-to-become monk friend in Indiana at the time of my home-town flood; it hit national news and I woke to a newspaper in Indiana that read "Estes Park, Colorado, wiped off of the map" - my whole home town. I had a fit of course, and phones were tied up for hours. I later learned it was the small enclave halfway down the canyon that was wiped away, not Estes, but still immensely tragic.
Anyway (
THE JOKE) the
damn at the bottom of the road and canyon, having set you up for a hearty laugh with a morbid , loquatious story before it (timing ! TIMING ! said the comedian), well the damm had a small general
store right beside it. After the flood, and they got washed away in the store, they rebuilt the store, picked themselves up by the bootstraps, dusted their britches off, said many cliches, and at the
site where the damn WAS, rebuilt their store.
They had the good-natured double-entendre
wit to name it ( you guessed it....) "
BEST STORE BY A DAMN SITE" ! lol - GOTTA GIVE -EM CREDIT FOR HAVING A SENSE-OF-HUMOUR !
well...that busts another other wise-short thread.....
~geo steve