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Vermont Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Bulldozing the grocer

Hi,

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it.

Della tyrannize grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until... what? I don' know. Can someone tell me something about this?

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Hi, I see that you are still reading O. Henry. Your understanding is not bad.

— Clive

  • Hi, I see that you are still reading O.
  • Henry.
  • Your understanding is not bad.
  • Della is a poor woman.
  • She has only a little money.
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Hi,

I see that you are still reading O. Henry.


Your understanding is not bad. Della is a poor woman. She has only a little money. She saved her pennies slowly by arguing about prices with the grocer, the vegetable man and the butcher until she forced them to lower their prices for her. She did this, but whenever they lowered their prices, she blu
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Thank you so much. It is so complete.
Thanks.
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THANK UUUU..... So much it was helpfulEmotion: it wasnt me
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"one and two at a time" - what does the author mean by this? I'm a student who is trying to translate this into my language, Vietnamese. I need your help, thanks in advance.

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Thanks a lot. I've searched it on the internet. It seems like Mr. O'Henry was a few and far between person who used that phrase. Because i don't see any newspaper titles having it, or anything else.

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