A more starry return...

[Arrant]

Hi all,

I've just awoken from a short sleep - catching up on some missed recently!

Anyway, during my "dreaming", flashes of which I'm remembering, I uttered several times the phrase, "...a more starry return", meaning, I feel strongly, a more favourable return on one's investment of time and effort, in the context of a relationship, rather than monetrary gain.

It's not a phrase I've ever used, nor, to my knowledge, ever heard. So I was wondering if anyone is familiar with that phrase as an idiom of conversation in the English speaking world at any time in history? Of course, it's entirely possible it's a phrase I've heard or read sometime/somewhere, and my semi-concious brain was just processing the information, but as I also recall various related images from the dream, I'd be grateful for any input offered up...

Thanks.

 

[kemetic18]

Hi Arrant:


I've never heard it before but it is a pretty phrase, whatever it is. :thumbsup:


I remember in college finding a book in the library on old-fashioned slang and phrases and their first recorded use in english language...of course now I can't remember the title for the life of me. Maybe if you search online you could find something like that.


Good luck.

 

[Arrant]

Thanks for your input, Kemetic.


I will do some research!

 

[usetawuz]

An interesting phrase Arrant. There are currently two google references to " a starry return" of previous engagements on Broadway. While not a phrase I am accustomed to using, it is apparently somewhat familiar in the context of live stage entertainment. It may certainly be indicative of a previous common usage in such circles in a previous lifetime...and you may be somehow beginning a "more starry return" in this lifetime.

 

[Lilmsmaggie]

An interesting phrase Arrant. There are currently two google references to " a starry return" of previous engagements on Broadway. While not a phrase I am accustomed to using, it is apparently somewhat familiar in the context of live stage entertainment. It may certainly be indicative of a previous common usage in such circles in a previous lifetime...and you may be somehow beginning a "more starry return" in this lifetime.

I was gonna say the same thing (mostly), but add that it could be a reference to an enthusiastic or overoptimistic expectation of a return to something.

 

[Arrant]

An interesting phrase Arrant. There are currently two google references to " a starry return" of previous engagements on Broadway. While not a phrase I am accustomed to using, it is apparently somewhat familiar in the context of live stage entertainment. It may certainly be indicative of a previous common usage in such circles in a previous lifetime...and you may be somehow beginning a "more starry return" in this lifetime.

Wow! Now there's a thought....


OK, time to look into this more.


Many thanks.

 

[Arrant]

I was gonna say the same thing (mostly), but add that it could be a reference to an enthusiastic or overoptimistic expectation of a return to something.

Yes, that could be equally right. I'm defintely going to pursue this now. I'd so much like to learn even a fraction of what I was in my past lives. I can't help but feel it holds the key to the present.