George, seriously . . . what are you doing here? I haven’t seen you since our divorce was finalized. You’ve got no right to be here, you’re hardly homeless!
Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year — a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.
To play someone off someone else is to make those two people disagree, oppose each other. She played her parents off each other after their divorce to get what she wanted.
play someone off someone是指使两个人产生分歧,挑拨离间。在她的父母离婚之后,她为了得到自己想要的,在两人之间煽风点火。
We'd laugh about her bitchy socialite friends or whatever husband she was divorcing at the time because I thought I was in on the joke, but that whole time, I was the joke.