What is Play Ahab?
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In reference to the novel character who relentlessly pursued the white whale, which is a metaphor for the unattainable or for what the searcher believes to be perfect. So playing ahab is searching for a specific elusive something among a vast group of the like.
Forget her, I'm living in the ocean and I refuse to play ahab.
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East End/West End London, UK slang, Victorian and latterly Neo-Elizabethan. Refers to paper currency bearing the image of H.R.H. Queen V..