You love blow and I love puff

English translation: cocaine, marijuana

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English term or phrase:You love blow and I love puff
Selected answer:cocaine, marijuana
Entered by: Giordano B (X)

10:22 Aug 4, 2011
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music / Please explain, rephrase or comment. Thank you!
English term or phrase: You love blow and I love puff
AMY WINEHOUSE

"Back To Black"

He left no time to regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high
And my tears dry
Get on without my guy
You went back to what you knew
So far removed from all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I'll go back to black

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to.....

I go back to us

I love you much
It's not enough
You love blow and I love puff
And life is like a pipe
And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

Black, black, black, black, black, black, black,
I go back to
I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

We only said good-bye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black
Giordano B (X)
cocaine, marijuana
Explanation:
Considering who the song's by and about these seem the most likely interpretations.
Blow is a slang term used for cocaine (although in the past it was also used to refer to marijuana or hashish)
Puff is a slang term used in the UK to refer to marijuana.
Selected response from:

Graham Allen-Rawlings
Spain
Local time: 16:32
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +9cocaine, marijuana
Graham Allen-Rawlings
4 +2blow = cocaine and puff = pot (cannabis)
Louisa Berry
3 +2we like different (opposite, contradictory) things
Jack Doughty
5Puff
Kennedy360


  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
you love blow and i love puff
we like different (opposite, contradictory) things


Explanation:
I think that's probably all it means, unless it has obscene connotations ("blow" meaning "blow job" and "puff" having some other sexxual connotation which escapes me), but I don't think that's likely.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:32
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 40

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  akkek: I agree with the interpretation. The actual words used refer to drugs. "Blow" refers to cocaine, and "puff" refers to marijuana | as a community interpreter I can't afford such ignorance :)
23 mins
  -> Thank you. I am happily ignorant of drug abusers' terminology.

agree  P.L.F. Persio
3 hrs
  -> Тhank you.
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
you love blow and i love puff
cocaine, marijuana


Explanation:
Considering who the song's by and about these seem the most likely interpretations.
Blow is a slang term used for cocaine (although in the past it was also used to refer to marijuana or hashish)
Puff is a slang term used in the UK to refer to marijuana.


    Reference: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=puff
    Reference: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blow
Graham Allen-Rawlings
Spain
Local time: 16:32
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Louisa Berry: damn too slow with my references
6 mins

agree  ClaraVal
8 mins

agree  Jim Tucker (X)
21 mins

agree  Paul Lambert: Yes, correct. BTW, a nice song isn't it? She was a real class act.
26 mins

agree  Lindsay Spratt
57 mins

agree  Michael Barnett
2 hrs

agree  P.L.F. Persio
3 hrs

agree  Rachel Fell: agree with Paul L. too
11 hrs

agree  vierama
21 hrs
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
you love blow and i love puff
blow = cocaine and puff = pot (cannabis)


Explanation:
I think this is a drug reference as blow and puff are slang for cocaine and cannabis, at least in UK English.

see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6519175...

and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6521761...


The meaning of the lyrics is discussed here

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858634215/

Louisa Berry
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  P.L.F. Persio
3 hrs

agree  Thuy-PTT (X)
3 days 19 hrs
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4261 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
you love blow and i love puff
Puff


Explanation:
Puff and black are both slang words for heroin. Black because of its color when it comes in “tar” form, and puff because of puff the magic dragon. Puff mostly refers to people who smoke heroin.

Example sentence(s):
  • She smokes puff.
  • She prefers black
Kennedy360
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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