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Angliholic Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

A pinball off milling bodies

Zinkoff ricochets like a pinball off milling bodies.

Hi,

What is "milling bodies?"

And what does "a pinball off milling bodies" refer to? Thanks.
  

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Presumably he's in a crowd of people? "milling bodies" means a group of people moving around in different directions. "like a pinball" means, erm, like a pinball (in the game of pinball, this is the little metal ball that you propel into the board and which then frantically bounces around).

— Mr Wordy

  • Presumably he's in a crowd of people?
  • "milling bodies" means a group of people moving around in different directions.
  • "like a pinball" means, erm, like a pinball (in the game of pinball, this is the little metal ball that you propel into the board and which then frantically bounces around).
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Presumably he's in a crowd of people?

"milling bodies" means a group of people moving around in different directions.

"like a pinball" means, erm, like a pinball (in the game of pinball, this is the little metal ball that you propel into the board and which then frantically bounces around).
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AngliholicWhat is "milling bodies?"
People who are milling about -- that is, members of a crowd who are each moving more or less aimlessly as one thing or another in the environment attracts them. The human equivalent of Brownian motion.

CJ
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