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brokendave | 15:26 Mon 20th Dec 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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The Emporer has no clothes... What does it mean, and where did the phrase originate?
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What I interpreted from the story of the Emperor's New Clothes is that the story is an assertion of how people can be influenced by popular beliefs, and they do not have the courage to challenge people of higher social and economic stature.

In this case, everyone said that the emperor had lovely clothes though in fact he had no clothes on, and so nobody dared challenge this belief. It is only the child who with his innocent courage challenged this notion when he cried out "the emperor has got no clothes on!" 

05:46 Tue 21st Dec 2004
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May have been a Han Christian Anderson story
07:39 Tue 21st Dec 2004
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No, it wasn't a Han Christian Anderson story, it was a Hans Christian Andersen story :-)
10:53 Tue 21st Dec 2004

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