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MUSCOVITE Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Bier

Hi,

"Beer fills many a bottle and the bottle fills many a bier"

My question:

...the bottle fills many a bier = drunkenness results in many a death ??? (bier = grave here??)

thank you!

mus-te
  

Top answer

Hi Mus-te, You've got it. The only thing is that a bier is a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation or on which it is carried to the grave .

  • Hi Mus-te, You've got it.
  • The only thing is that a bier is a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation or on which it is carried to the grave .
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Hi Mus-te,
You've got it.
The only thing is that a bier is a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation or on which it is carried to the grave.
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Hi John,

Thank you for your response!

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