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Also, “give away” typically means $0. $89000 is to the best of my knowledge larger than $0. I’ll bet he could give it away, but he doesn’t want to do that.
"giving it away" can also mean selling it cheap.
Edit: damn I'm not defending this price, just explaining the metaphorical phrase. Chill yall
No, "giving away" means giving something for free. A better way to say it would be "practically or as if I'm giving it away".
Of course, in daily discourse you might say "I gave it away" instead of "I got rid of it" or "I sold it" since it sounds nicer and is probably more informative when someone asks you "What happened to your car?" and you want to mean I gave it to someone else and didn't take any money for it, not when you post it for sale on Facebook Marketplace.
The fact that people list "giveaways" where you pay for anything other than shipping, tax, etc. does not change what the words mean.
And even if we're cutting it close with "practically giving away", the max price I'd give on such a "given away car" is $500. Anything more is cutting your losses.
$90k is 180 times that amount. Does that mean he wants to give the car away 180 times?
It's the same underlying wordplay.
I'll shit on anyone for buying a cybertruck but you're being very pedantic.
I am giving away the chance to read this comment. Since you have already done so, where should I send the $89,000 bill? Or are you thieving scum?
So there's this thing called exaggeration...
Going from $89k to "give it away" is not exaggeration, it's whiny pissboy bullshittery.
No it isn't. It's an extremely common phrase people use all the time when talking about things. I've said it about my own junk.