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Mashmellow Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

around the horn

let's go around the horn and say who we are sitting here.

what is the meaning of "around the horn"?
  

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Here it just means 'around the circle/group'. org/wiki/Horn_of_Africa ]the Horn of Africa[/url], the long, roundabout route between Europe and the East Indies before the Suez Canal was constructed.

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  • Here it just means 'around the circle/group'.
  • org/wiki/Horn_of_Africa ]the Horn of Africa[/url], the long, roundabout route between Europe and the East Indies before the Suez Canal was constructed.
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Here it just means 'around the circle/group'. Originally, 'around the Horn' meant around [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_of_Africa]the Horn of Africa[/url], the long, roundabout route between Europe and the East Indies before the Suez Canal was constructed.
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No. "Around the Horn" originally meant sailing around Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America. Until the opening of the Panama Canal, this was the only way to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

In American baseball, a fielding play that goes from third to second to first is described as going around the horn.
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Anonymous"Around the Horn" originally meant sailing around Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America.
Yes, you are right; my mistake; I was actually thinking of the Cape of Good Hope—which was also wrong!
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Sailing around the Horn of Africa would take a ship into the Red Sea.
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