a cigar is a cigar

English

Phrase

a cigar is a cigar

  1. Alternative form of a cigar is just a cigar.
    • 2002, Walt Harrington, “Twelve Years Later: Thanksgiving”, in The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 12:
      Whenever I have dreamed that memory during the many Thanksgiving vacations I now have hunted in Kentucky, I’ve wondered why I did. It contains no Daliesque symbols. It’s a documentary dream. A cigar is a cigar. But you don’t need a shingle hanging in Vienna to know it has to do with pondering whether hunting, like war, qualifies as justifiable murder.
    • 2011 January 20, Jack O’Connor, quoting Frank Emerson, Memories of Hurricane Katrina and Other Musings, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page xi:
      Having read the book, I speak for all those who – unless it’s a Rudyard Kipling poem when you know for certain that a cigar is a cigar – have trouble figuring out the hidden meaning of a poem, or even if there was a hidden meaning, thanks for the back stories, Jack.
    • 2011 September, Jim Harold, “Part V: Eating My Own Dogfood”, in Jim Harold’s Campfire: True Ghost Stories, Pompton Plains, N.J.: New Page Books, page 225:
      My family is salt-of-the-earth, and certainly not the type to sleep with crystals under their beds to summon some universal wisdom or study their chakras. To them, a cigar is a cigar, and life is pretty straightforward.
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