You are TWICE the man

"the man"

It means you have twice the positive characteristics as the other man.

Using a comparison, whether numerical (e.g. "twice", "ten times", "a hundred times" etc) or not (e.g. "many times") followed by "the" followed by a role or capability descriptor (e.g. "a man", "a scholar", "a footballer", "a musician", "a driver") followed by "that" is an idiomatic way of making a comparison between two people in terms of the role or capability referred to.

James is twice the man that Peter is.
Mary is ten times the scholar that I am.
etc.

Another way is to use "more" followed by "a" like this:

John is more a driver than I.
You are much more a pianist than Henry Jones.

Thank you, Engineer and Contrex, very much.

In traditional terms, would you call "twice" in that sentence an adjective or an adverb?


Thank you,


James

I made an error in my previous post, here is a correction.

Using a comparison, whether numerical (e.g. "twice", "ten times", "a hundred times" etc) or not (e.g. "many times") followed by "the" followed by a role or capability descriptor (e.g. "man", "scholar", "footballer", "musician", "driver") followed by "that" is an idiomatic way of making a comparison between two people in terms of the role or capability referred to.

(The rest is OK I believe)

Twice is an adverb.

Thank you.