Next up in my essays for uni: "[...] and blah blah blah, etc." (Montague 2018)
What. I'm not a native English speaker, what the heck is he trying to articulate?
I
think he's saying that sometimes when you make yourself vulnerable and open up to people and then they don't respond in kind but instead decide to take advantage of you, it's sad. Which yeah no
tit most of us worked that out as teenagers or in our early twenties.
If "Lard have mercy" is what's stumping you, I've just spent two minutes I do not have trying to work out how to describe it and failing! It's kind of like "Of for god's sake"