But a good cigar is a smoke
Dear experts,
What is the current implication of the cliche attributed to Sigmund Freud SOMETIMES A CIGAR IS JUST A CIGAR?
Thank you,
YuriTry the search box for Sometimes a cigar. The current implication depends on who's saying it and why. Mostly, it means don't assume that a cigar (or something else) is necessarily a sexual symbol. Sometimes it's just a cigar (or something else). But it also enables people to make introduce a joke about Monica Lewinsky, if they are easily amused. See, as one of several, www.phrases.org.uk/ bulletin_board/40 messages 388.html
SSMore, if you can stand it.
Departmental Ditties and Other Verses:
The Betrothed."You must choose between me and your cigar."
- Breach of Promise Case, circa 1885.Rudyard Kipling
OPEN the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout,
For things are running crossways, and Maggie and I are out.We quarrelled about Havanas-we fought o'er a good cheroot,
And I knew she is exacting, and she says I am a brute....
Open the old cigar-box-let me consider anew-
Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.Light me another Cuba-I hold to my first-sworn vows.
If Maggie will have no rival, I'll have no Maggie for Spouse!Do you like Kipling? SS
Speaking of bad cigar jokes, raw sewage is pumped straight into the ocean in Sydney, ruining the otherwise beautiful Bondi Beach. Hence the commonly heard joke: I went swimming at Bondi and came up smoking a cigar. But as far as the quote attributed to Freud "Sometimes a cigar is only a ciger" goes, Freud's famous love of cigars (a love which killed him in the end) leads every undergraduate psych student to declare that he was terminally fixated in the oral stage. So is a cigar a phallic symbol or a breast substitute? I will post the question on a psych site and get back to you. I think the saying usually means - sometimes the obvious is the truth - don't look too deeply into things. Pamela