That’s the meaning of something getting lost on someone – it has no effect on them. Either they do not pay attention or they ignore it, they do not understand it, do not appreciate it.
Another example. When you tell a foreigner a joke in Chinese, you want to be careful and go slow. Even though the foreigner understand the individual words, it’s very difficult sometimes for them to get the joke. Sometimes, they nod and say they understand, but they don’t laugh. That’s the thing, the words they get but the joke was lost on them. In other words, they understand the drift but don’t get the irony or sarcasm. They do not get the nitty-gritty.
Same thing is true the other way around, of course.
Alright, let’s learn more about the phrase via real media examples:
1. THIS Friday sees the release of Amazing Grace, a biopic of William Wilberforce that portrays his life-long effort, along with his friend, William Pitt the younger, to pass a bill in Westminster abolishing the slave trade. Among other things, the film focuses on the problem facing Wilberforce and the abolitionists, to make the horror of the slave trade an issue to Britons who lived thousands of miles from its reality.
Last week, in Glasgow, I met Michael Apted, the British-born director of Amazing Grace, who was travelling round Britain promoting the film. We strolled around Glasgow’s Merchant City, and stopped to chat not far from the Tobacco Merchants House in Miller Street. “Wilberforce and the abolitionists had a similar problem to those opposing the Iraq war today, which is to say that slavery didn’t really touch people,” he explains. “People had no real connection to slavery. All they felt was sugar, and the irony of that sweetness was lost on them. There were only a few dozen black people in Glasgow and no real slavery as such, so there was this interesting dynamic as to how the abolitionists could dramatise this horror to them, how they could draw people's attention to it when it was happening 3,000 miles away; that was the challenge.”
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