An american Marriage p6-7

p6

- doing something so hood. / ghetto, gangster 

 

- Every woman I took a shine to : crush on

- someone elas waiting in the cut : 관심있는 다른 사람있음

 

-Pistol Girl's deaparture got up my skin like chiggers : chiggers 진드기 / messed him up  

 

- My father has this alpha-omega way about him. : beginning and end

: he's always there 

: that brandished a firearm : show, point 

- the streetness of the pistol : ghetto 

- the glitter of the evening : romantic, nice

 

- She was playing, Daddy. : joking

 

- She might be crazy, but she's not crazy. : stupid

 

Perry Mason : very famous TV lawyer, not real lawyer 

Perry Mason (TV Series 1957–1966)

p7

 

My mother was still peanut-gallerying from the kitchen.

 

peanut-gallerying : not very important / 관객석/무대 뒤쪽 좌석에서 야유할 때 땅콩 등을 던지는 관객

when you hear laughter in a TV show, or just about any aweing or anything. the people that do those sound effects are called the peanut gallery

- Allen Parish : 동네 이름, parish 동

 

- my mama has a thing about that. : issue 

 

All my buddies tell me that their mother are steady warning them, 

"If she can't use your comb, don't bring her home" 

 

 

흑인들 머리빗은 다른 모양, 같은 빗을 사용하는 여자친구를 데리고 오라는 것은 흑인여자친구를 데려오라고 하는 것. 머리를 편 흑인도 제외. 

 

- Enony and Jet : 잡지 

 

all the black men with who two nickels to rub together are opting for the swril. 

little bit, any money 돈이 조금이라도 있는 모든 흑인 남자들은 백인 여성과 데이트하기를 선택할 것이다 

swirl

I'm striclty down white with the brown

: I like african american woman

 

sister : black woman 

 

The two of them favored so much : so similar 

* favor v. <부모, 가족 등>을 닮다

 

Thelma from Good Times 

 

Jasmine in Bernadette's clothing 

 

p8

get this show on the road : (idiom) get started