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What does happily ever after mean?

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Scion457 · 19/05/2019 21:45

....and they lived happily ever after

As a sentence,in English, it makes no sense? Does it? Happily ever after-that’s nonsense isn’t it?

You know when you say something so many times it loses meaning. So they lived happily, but what does the ever after part mean? Why is this only now not making any sense to me?!!

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Bezalelle · 19/05/2019 21:52

I think "ever after" refers whatever the event is that the story is about.

So boy meets girl, they get in some danger, danger is overcome. They live happily ever after [the danger].

SleepingStandingUp · 19/05/2019 22:00

Ever after always took to mean ever more so forever

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