What does it mean "to come undone"?

[Gość: aishling]

[Gość: db]

w zaleznosci
rozpielo sie
rozsznurowalo
lub po prostu
przyjsc nieubranym, rozpietym?

Shakespeare and Pop

[Gość: english-test.net]

It's probably a throwback to a word used in Shakespeare's plays 'I am undone'
which can be used to describe being found out, being discovered when you have
committed a crime and thus in S's sense take the character of Edmund in King
Lear who has plotted to deprive his brother of his inheritance and tried to
dupe his father. When he realises he has been found out, he says something
like that. So from the sublime to the ridiculous, one could say it means
roughly you have no defences against the love you have for someone.

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Come undone?

[Gość: english-test.net]

The phase 'I come undone' seems to exist only in the world of pop songs and I
think it seems as much as 'I lose control because I'm so attracted to you...'
Any other ideas?

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[Gość: VIP-1]

zalezy gdzie to slyszales(las)
"normalne" znaczenie db podal ci powyzej
moge tylko dodac ze moze to rowniez dotyczyc rozpietego rozporka i nie tylko

"ukryte" znaczenie to raczej dotyczy seksu
na przyklad jesli dziewczyna obiecywala sobie zbyt wiele
po randce, a wsumie nic sie nie "stalo" to mozna uzyc
tego wyrazenia.

jest to raczej sporadycznie uzywane i najpredzej
"ukryte" znaczenie uslyszysz w jakiejs piosence

[Gość: yorick]

Hmm...

Outlaw Torn by Metallica:

"(...) And when I start to come undone, stitch me together..."

Co prawda oni lubią bawić się tanimi gierkami słownymi, więc nie można do końca
być pewnym, ale zdaje się, że żadne z powyższych znaczeń tu nie pasuje, może
najbliżej to english-neta.
pzdrv

Come undone and Shakespeare?

[Gość: english-test.net]

It's probably a throwback to a word used in Shakespeare's plays 'I am undone'
which can be used to describe being found out, being discovered when you have
committed a crime and thus in S's sense take the character of Edmund in King
Lear who has plotted to deprive his brother of his inheritance and tried to
dupe his father. When he realises he has been found out, he says something
like that. So from the sublime to the ridiculous, one could say it means
roughly you have no defences against the love you have for someone.

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[Gość: Konrad Pekala]

"Wychodzic z siebie"
Slowniki kupowac!! ;)

[Gość: Konrad Pekala]

kiedys znalalem to tlumaczenie na leksyka.pl, ale nie jestem teraz pewien czy
jest ono poprawne. przepraszam za zawracanie glowy:[

[Gość: smiena]

to come undone:
1.odpiąć się; rozwiązać się

zrodlo: slownik WNT, Leksykonia

[ewunia_uk]

Come undone to po prostu "rozpruc sie", "rozpiac sie", np.

His fly has come undone :))))

W znaczeniu przenosnym, czyli "rozklejac sie", "stracic watek", "zagubic sie"
uzywane jest - tak jak napisal english-test - tylko w piosenkach.

W przytoczonym fragmencie Metallica uzywa wiec tej gry slownej: "A jesli sie
rozkleje, to zeszyj mnie do kupy" czy cos takiego :)

[Gość: Yorick]

Dokładnie:

'rozkleję się'. Chyba o to generalnie chodzi.
pzdrv

[Gość: Yorick]

I exchanged opinions thru ICQ

a Native Speaker agreed that it in fact may be 'falling apart' (mentally), but
instantly added the 'unbuttoned pants' connotation...
rgdz

[Gość: aishling]

Thanks a million. In my question I was referring to pop songs. Other meanings
of the phrase are well known or may be looked up in most available
dictionaries. Thanx again.