[Vocabulary] job and a half

[maiabulela]

A girl is bikini-waxing her sister and then says while she is laughing :
"This is a job and a half"

What is the meaning of this expression?

Thanks,

 

[Rover_KE]

It's a bigger or more difficult job than she thought it was going to be when she started.

Rover

 

[maiabulela]

Yes!! That really makes sense. Can\t thanksyou enough
:up::up:

 

[BobK]

The idea of calling a big thing 'a thing and a half' isn't specific to English. In Latin poetry - which is divided into stress patterns called 'feet' - there was a kind of foot called a sesquipes which was defined as 'a foot that was as long as a foot and a half' (which it was).

From this English gets the word 'sesquipedalian', used to describe very long words. (It's not common, and is often used in a context that mixes the jocular with the academic.)

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