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Vocabulary
Baggage
Hi, what does baggage mean here? Is it slang?
“I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes,” she observed ruefully.
“I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes,” she observed ruefully.
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Hi, what does baggage mean here? Is it slang? No, it's just a figurative use of the word.
- Hi, what does baggage mean here?
- Is it slang?
- No, it's just a figurative use of the word.
- “I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes,” she observed ruefully.
- I was not treated as a person, but just as a nuisance, a thing to be moved from one place to another.
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Hi,
what does baggage mean here? Is it slang?
No, it's just a figurative use of the word.
“I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes,” she observed ruefully.
I was not treated as a person, but just as a nuisance, a thing to be moved from one place to another.
Clive
what does baggage mean here? Is it slang?
No, it's just a figurative use of the word.
“I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes,” she observed ruefully.
I was not treated as a person, but just as a nuisance, a thing to be moved from one place to another.
Clive
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Baggage is a wonderful word and has a variety of words, depending on context - but in this case, it is the collective noun for bags, used similar to luggage. It is not slang.
She is saying that she felt like a bag of potatoes, heavy, unattractive and inanimate; that she was not being treated as a person, or a companion.
This is similar but more demeaning than a person being tre
She is saying that she felt like a bag of potatoes, heavy, unattractive and inanimate; that she was not being treated as a person, or a companion.
This is similar but more demeaning than a person being tre
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