next week, East Lynne

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1. •
   (old-fashioned) Suggests that something will fail and soon be ended.

   • PETER: We could start a two-person stock company. If things get tough, we can play some small town auditoriums. We'll call this one "The Great Deception." ELLIE: Next week "East Lynne." — 1934
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   (old-fashioned) Suggests that a person's acting is poor and particularly melodramatic.

   • I have known critics who were actors at heart, giving their own impersonations of Raskolnikov, or Donne, or Freud. Next week, East Lynne. — 1962