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Contraposition Posted 10 years ago
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Could you please show me a picture of someone 'leaning across someone' to make me better understand?

lean across someone

to incline oneself across someone She leaned across me to reach the telephone and spilled my wine.
  

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Hmm, well, I can't find any picture, but imagine that I'm sitting to your left, and the telephone is to your right. To reach the telephone I have to incline my body towards and in front of you, either brushing into you, or causing you to have to lean backwards to avoid me. That's what "lean across" means.

— GPY

  • Hmm, well, I can't find any picture, but imagine that I'm sitting to your left, and the telephone is to your right.
  • To reach the telephone I have to incline my body towards and in front of you, either brushing into you, or causing you to have to lean backwards to avoid me.
  • That's what "lean across" means.
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Hmm, well, I can't find any picture, but imagine that I'm sitting to your left, and the telephone is to your right. To reach the telephone I have to incline my body towards and in front of you, either brushing into you, or causing you to have to lean backwards to avoid me. That's what "lean across" means.
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contrapositionlean across someone
~ bend the upper part of your body so that it crosses in front of the person next to you

In the picture, the woman is leaning across the man. If she leaned even more and reached for something on the other side of him, you'd see the kind of thing that's described in your sentence.

CJ

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If she leaned even more, she would be falling out of whatever it is she's almost wearing.
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khoffIf she leaned even more, she would be falling out of whatever it is she's almost wearing.
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