Not P but Moby-Dick (38)

[Perry Noid]

Not sure if the meaning was different in Melville's time but in current
American usage it means something serious or urgent needing attention

On Sun, Nov 5, 2023, 8:17 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 53:
>
> But the whale-boat has no seat astern, no sofa of that sort whatever, and
> no tiller at all. High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled about
> the water on castors like gouty old aldermen in patent chairs.
>
> What does "High times" mean here? One translation confused it with "high
> time", which seems clearly wrong.
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