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Dela Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

A thumb from the above

is it an idiom? What does it mean?

e.g. There are some large things pressing down upon me right now, like a thumb from above--right on my forehead.
  

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Hi, is it an idiom? No. It's just a simile that the writer has thought of.

  • Hi, is it an idiom?
  • No.
  • It's just a simile that the writer has thought of.
  • What does it mean?
  • It means that he feels a lot of pressure right now.
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Hi,

is it an idiom? No. It's just a simile that the writer has thought of.

What does it mean? It means that he feels a lot of pressure right now. We don't have any context, so we don't know if the pressure is literal or figurative. Think about how you would feel if a big thumb we
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Thank you. Helpful~

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