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Janaj Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

A treat in store

Could somebody help me, please, with this?
"You will be fascinated, man. You have got a treat in store if you never dome this."
I suppose it is an idiom, but I have not found it.
  

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" "In store" means something like "in storage" here, so the treat is yours, and it is waiting for you to go get it. "You've got a treat in store" leaves off the "for you", which would be redundant, anyway. The expression is not literal, of course, and it means that pleasure is inevitable if you do the thing under consideration.

— Enoon

  • " "In store" means something like "in storage" here, so the treat is yours, and it is waiting for you to go get it.
  • "You've got a treat in store" leaves off the "for you", which would be redundant, anyway.
  • The expression is not literal, of course, and it means that pleasure is inevitable if you do the thing under consideration.
  • Although the dictionaries recognize it in literal use, I have never seen this "in store" outside this expression.
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The parent expression is something like "There is a treat in store for you." "In store" means something like "in storage" here, so the treat is yours, and it is waiting for you to go get it. "You've got a treat in store" leaves off the "for you", which would be redundant, anyway. The expression is not literal, of course, and it means that pleasure is inevitable if you do the thing under considerat
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janajin store
in the future;
that you can expect;
waiting for you

CJ
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Thank you very much, it make sense just now, because a treat can be also - to feel endangered - it had not any sense for me.
Also it could be understood that you will have some emergency treat in some store, because you will faint or something as this..
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Thank you, yes - in store, it is a good def. jj
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