Antonia: in full color

Hi,

1.Can you please tell me what does it mean: Her pictures were spilled out onto desk in full colour. Generally, this means 'in complete colours'. As opposed, perhaps, to pictures in black and white, or even in sepia.

2. For all he knew (as much as he knew?) Yes. But it's a standard phrase.

Additionally:

#1 might be a mildly humorous or colourful way of saying "for everyone to see".

If the pictures are spilled out in profusion, the spectator's impression will be of a "colourful mass". One quality of the pictures (the fact that they're in "full colour") thus represents the whole. It's a kind of synecdoche, I suppose.

MrP

Hi,

I wonder. Perhaps that's a little bit of a stretch, considering that the pictures themselves were mentioned in such close proximity to the phrase?

Clive

Thanks Mr Pedantic

Clive
Hi,

I wonder. Perhaps that's a little bit of a stretch, considering that the pictures themselves were mentioned in such close proximity to the phrase?

Clive

Yes, I know what you mean. But it seems an odd thing to mean literally.

MrP

Perhaps some more context could help you, these pictures were pictures of detective's wife, raped.

Hi,

I see. Perhaps in that case, the phrase is meant to suggest that the pictures were very graphic and explicit.

You're not reading Jane Austen, are you?

Clive

5000 Jane who?! Just kidding!02br
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