肩もげる？

Glenn

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There's this dialog that I read on someone's blog, and I'm slightly unsure of what the last sentence means. Here it is:

俺が秋葉でみたカップル
ｿﾌﾏｯﾌﾟで目的の物が売り切れだったらしく、女はメソメ ソ。
男がポッケから白いハンカチ取り出して
「2番線お涙掃除列車通過いたしま～す」とか言って
彼女の頬と鼻なぞるように、拭いてた。

女「すき…」

俺は肩もげそうになった。

I assume that's 肩がもげそうになった, as in も・げる【×捥げる】, since there really isn't anything else I've seen that makes sense. But what's the connotation here? Is it a bad thing that his shoulder was metaphorically about to twist/fall off, or is this a good thing? It doesn't seem to be a set expression as far as I can tell.

 

Mike Cash

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I have no idea....but that story made my teeth hurt.

 

Glenn

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That makes me think it's definitely a bad connotation, since it came from a thread called 壁殴りたくなるコピペ. But some people seemed to like the story too, so... (one outright said they did)

 

Toritoribe

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I think the writer used it as an exaggerated version of 腰が砕けそうになった.

 

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saheki51

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This is uncommon usage. So we can only guess.
I think the writer was disgusted their fake-cutenesses and affected manners. So he felt loss of strength, and expressed them exaggeratively.
I think similar phrases are がっくりする, どっと疲れが襲う, 肩が落ちる, 脱力する, 全身の力が抜ける, etc.

 

Glenn

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Toritoribe said:

I think the writer used it as an exaggerated version of 腰が砕けそうになった.

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Ah, that's a new one on me.

saheki51 said:

This is uncommon usage. So we can only guess.
I think the writer was disgusted their fake-cutenesses and affected manners. So he felt loss of strength, and expressed them exaggeratively.
I think similar phrases are がっくりする, どっと疲れが襲う, 肩が落ちる, 脱力する, 全身の力が抜ける, etc.

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OK, so it's pretty much the negative connotation that I had suspected, then. Ha, there are some pretty strong ones in there too, though! 特に「全身の力が抜ける」がね。