If you watch this video, you'll understand the meaning of the expression 'bunny boiler'. In fact, I'd say this film is the origin of the expression.
So what does it mean?
Did you watch this film?
Did you like it?
Thanks, Kevin.
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Wow, I didn't remember this scene and I didn't know this expression. I bet this is the origin of it, for sure! So, I have checked different dictionaries and the definition varies. Most of them refer to women, although I think it could relate to any person. It is a person who has been rejected by a lover and takes revenge. It could also be referred to a person who is infatuated by someone to the point of being unstable, so begins to act obsessively or even dangerously towards the object of their desire.
ReplyDeleteA third possibility talks about a person who is always wondering if their spouse or partner loves them and is willing to do "anything" in order to keep them by their side.
I saw this movie first when I was 18 or so, and although shocking and certainly not very pleasant, I found it very good and believable due to the story, script direction and acting, although it got no Oscar prize, just nominations.
For me a bunny boiler is always a woman, but I may be mistaken.
DeleteThanks for the thorough explanation.
Well, I was saying that it could be any person because I think a man can also feel and act that way, nothing else.
DeleteOf course! But I think (maybe mistakenly) that you only use the expression for women. Let me check.
DeleteLook, just found this: a woman who acts vengefully after having been spurned by her lover.
Origin
1990s: with reference to the film Fatal Attraction (1987), in which a rejected woman boils her lover's pet rabbit.
I don't remember the scene, but it's frightening, but if you don't remember the film it's difficult to understand the meaning of the sentence
ReplyDeleteYes, but now it's become a standard expression. People understand it even if they don't know the origin.
DeleteThe thing is that our everyday language is full of expressions of which we know the meaning but we ignore the origin most of times. I can think of many in regular Spanish!
DeleteI can't think of any of the top of my head...☺️
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