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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Bump
"A flash of leg.
The taste of tempation.
The smell of corruption.
And things that go bump in the night."
I heard this slogan in the trailer of the movie--Chicago but
don't quite understand the meaning of the word "bump" in
the text.
The taste of tempation.
The smell of corruption.
And things that go bump in the night."
I heard this slogan in the trailer of the movie--Chicago but
don't quite understand the meaning of the word "bump" in
the text.
Top answer
It's part of a whole phrase rather than just the meaning of the word bump. If you hit another car when parking (so moving at slow speeds you may say that you bumped into it). In this case it is things that go bump in the dark, imagine a child scared of the dark.
- It's part of a whole phrase rather than just the meaning of the word bump.
- If you hit another car when parking (so moving at slow speeds you may say that you bumped into it).
- In this case it is things that go bump in the dark, imagine a child scared of the dark.
- ), are the things that go bup in the dark.
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It's part of a whole phrase rather than just the meaning of the word bump. If you hit another car when parking (so moving at slow speeds you may say that you bumped into it).
In this case it is things that go bump in the dark, imagine a child scared of the dark. The sounds that they hear are the bumps and the things that they imagine are the causes (monsters etc.), are the things that
In this case it is things that go bump in the dark, imagine a child scared of the dark. The sounds that they hear are the bumps and the things that they imagine are the causes (monsters etc.), are the things that
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