In Idioms^x, Irony^x

Consider the following dialogue:Person #1: "You're crazy!"Person #2: "I'm not crazy. I merely claim to be Napoleon come back from the grave."After doing a Google search for "I merely claim to be", I was surprised to find that the phrase is not nearly as...

It turns out that those guys were weaned on Socratic irony.

-First I want to describe the situation (who is speaking to whom, that the Duke is looking for a new wife, that he killed his last one) -than I want mention that we don't just read this in our text but have to read it between the lines. -I would say that we have to read between the lines...

this is how the idiom works in this case, simple as that. think of to=with in this context it's like inviting yourself to a nice place (restaurant, etc) and enjoying it to treat to provide (as another person) gratuitously with food, drink, entertainment, or some other source of...

Yes; "only + to-infinitive" is the idiom. The verb is usually "find", "discover", "learn", or something of that kind. 1. I did X, only to find that Y. X is usually something "normal", "sensible", "reasonable". Y is an irony of circumstance, or something it would not have been reasonable to...