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When I asked my new boyfriend how much he missed me he replied from the earth to the moon so what does that mean by saying “from the earth to the moon?”
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You really have to learn to ask what a person means when they say something that you don't understand. You probably checked the internet for those words and didn't see them. They resemble idioms, something we use in English language and heres a link with examples. [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
It can't be found under idioms becaues he made it up but that doesn't make it meaningless. I can make one up too. If I was in Arizona on one of those 120 degree days and someone asked me if I was feeling Hot enough in a teasing manner. I could make up an idiom to say how hot I was like "I am as hot as a turtle stranded on a concrete sidewalk. Or I am hot enough to fry an egg on. Yes its silly or funny in many cases or it can convery how important or serious they mean something.
So in your case the distance from the earth to the moon is a great or big distance. So he was comparing how much he missed you as being greatly missed. You did not ask 'did you miss me' but 'how much . . . and so he had to make up a measurement.
So now here is another couple ways it could have been said just for example sake so you start to understand how to use these expressions, the already common ones or what you make up. If my hubby who loves sushi asked me "how much did you miss me, I could answer, "I missed you as much as a sushi roll without seaweed." If you know what sushi rolls are, it helps to figure out what this meant. Sushi has some fish, a tiny slice of cucumber, rice, wrapped up in seaweed to hold it together. One could not make sushi rolls without seaweed, it would be incomplete. So what I could be meaning by that is that I felt incomplete as a person without him around. I could say I missed you from here to Italy, again meaning greatly as that is meant to convey as great distance. Remember you started it by asking How much, so he was simply answering and telling you how much.
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