Both Uses of
liable
in
The Great Gatsby
- He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
p. 46.2 *liable = maybe going to
- As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities — he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere about the world.
p. 149.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(liable as in: is legally liable) legally responsible
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(2)
(liable as in: she is liable to) likely to; or maybe going to; or subject to