old British way to simply say cold. You come straight to the point, don't you, love? If somebody comes "straight to the point," they quickly say exactly what they are thinking. Free love, HG.? A lifestyle that was popular with hippies in the 1960s in which people have lots of lovers instead of just one at a time. The real H.G Wells supported free love, but it has not been particularly popular since the emergence of AIDS in the 1980s. I give you Casanova. A famous lover in literature. We'll have to listen to a sermon. A speech by a religious figure (used sarcastically to mean any speech by a person convinced of the correctness of his ideas). A physician's hours are not his own. A poetic way to say "doctors always have to work." Supper. British English for dinner (or perhaps any meal). We've begun to despair. "To despair" is an interesting little verb meaning to lose hope. I bid you farewell. A British way to say goodbye. Laboratory. Note the British pronunciation! Poppycock! This is a funny old-fashioned word for nonsense (Today, "bullshit" is most likely the word of choice in similar contexts). Wells presents his greatest invention: A time machine. You've actually built the bloody thing. In British English, "bloody" is an all-purpose (and overused) adjective to express intensity and emotion. Practical jokes are not in your line, old sport. Jokes in which one person plays a trick on another: "Its not your style to do practical jokes." From one time sphere...to another. Refers to the mathematical reality of physical space. A conscious but vaporized state. The physical state in which gas or mist hangs in the air. Bowlderdash! You go North and you get to Glasgow. Another British word for nonsense (or, bullshit). "Glasgow" is a major city in Scotland. Without the key, its a bloody homing pigeon. A type of bird that can be used to send written messages, and is trained to always return home. The vaporizing equalizer. A science-fiction term with no real meaning, though in the movie, it’s critical for the functioning of the time machine. Social utopia. No poverty, no disease.... A "utopia" is an ideally perfect place with no social problems (much discussed by philosophers & writers throughout history). You astonish me. "To astonish" is a strong verb meaning to amaze, or fill with wonder. The future will tell. A good little expression which means exactly what it says! Human frailty, at last. "Frailty" is weakness (either physical, emotional or intellectual). Checkmate! What the winning player says at the end of a game of chess. We've cordoned off the neighborhood. "To cordon off" an area is to surrounded it (usually with police, or literally with rope). Chief of
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