How to understant it?
In " But Marlowe has to get home and count the spoons", could you please tell me how to understand "count the spoons". The context is that Marlowe has just sent a suspected murder to the airport and now he is in the way back to home. Thank you!The police will come right away.

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How to understant it?
In " But Marlowe has to get home and count the spoons", could you please tell me how to understand "count the spoons". The context is that Marlowe has just sent a suspected murder to the airport and now he is in the way back to home. Thank you!The police will come right away.

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It means to check to see if any of his belongings were stolen. This expression comes from a time when spoons were valuable because they were made from silver, so if a person was suspicious of someone who visited his house, he might count his spoons after the visitor left to make sure none had been stolen.

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Yes. I understand.

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I think it means that Marlow has to be careful and don't trust. Marlow has to check that.

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