"a cigar is a cigar" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [English]

Head templates: {{en-head|phr}} a cigar is a cigar
  1. Alternative form of a cigar is just a cigar. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: a cigar is just a cigar
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          "ref": "2002, Walt Harrington, “Twelve Years Later: Thanksgiving”, in The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": "Whenever I have dreamed that memory during the many Thanksgiving vacations I now have hunted in Kentucky, I’ve wondered why I did. It contains no Daliesque symbols. It’s a documentary dream. A cigar is a cigar. But you don’t need a shingle hanging in Vienna to know it has to do with pondering whether hunting, like war, qualifies as justifiable murder.",
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          "ref": "2011 January 20, Jack O’Connor, quoting Frank Emerson, Memories of Hurricane Katrina and Other Musings, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page xi:",
          "text": "Having read the book, I speak for all those who – unless it’s a Rudyard Kipling poem when you know for certain that a cigar is a cigar – have trouble figuring out the hidden meaning of a poem, or even if there was a hidden meaning, thanks for the back stories, Jack.",
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          "ref": "2011 September, Jim Harold, “Part V: Eating My Own Dogfood”, in Jim Harold’s Campfire: True Ghost Stories, Pompton Plains, N.J.: New Page Books, page 225:",
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