Meaning:
A literal view of the subject of remarriage.
Background:
This remark is reported to have been said by Samuel Johnson in James
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791. The occasion was Johnson's hearing of
a man who had remarried soon after the death of a wife to whom he had been
unhappily married.
- www.phrases.org.uk [edited]
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Johnson voiced no judgment despite of knowing of the man's previous unhappy
marriage. Had the guy bailed out just before taking the plunge, as the character
Charles did in the film "Four Weddings and A Funeral," the sage lexicographer
would say experience knocked out hope in the last round.
