“What price” and this context
There was a book version of My Fair Lady (not Shaw's Pygmalion) which, if I remember correctly, has the line in it "what price the Covent Garden cobblestones" and I think the tag "on market day" with referenced to a gown with a train. The meaning seemed to be that if you were rich enough to afford a gown with a train, you wouldn't care if it got sopped in the market waste. So how does that fit in with the rest of the meanings for "what price"
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There was a book version of My Fair Lady (not Shaw's Pygmalion) which, if I remember correctly, has the line in it "what price the Covent Garden cobblestones" and I think the tag "on market day" with referenced to a gown with a train. The meaning seemed to be that if you were rich enough to afford a gown with a train, you wouldn't care if it got sopped in the market waste. So how does that fit in with the rest of the meanings for "what price"
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There was a book version of My Fair Lady (not Shaw's Pygmalion) which, if I remember correctly, has the line in it "what price the Covent Garden cobblestones" and I think the tag "on market day" with referenced to a gown with a train. The meaning seemed to be that if you were rich enough to afford a gown with a train, you wouldn't care if it got sopped in the market waste. So how does that fit in with the rest of the meanings for "what price"
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There was a book version of My Fair Lady (not Shaw's Pygmalion) which, if I remember correctly, has the line in it "what price the Covent Garden cobblestones" and I think the tag "on market day" with referenced to a gown with a train. The meaning seemed to be that if you were rich enough to afford a gown with a train, you wouldn't care if it got sopped in the market waste. So how does that fit in with the rest of the meanings for "what price"
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