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Flowersa Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Capacious as it could get

Hi, I understand that capacious it's like the place in the trunk car but I didn't understand this part "as it could get" ...

"But unlike Clinton, whose national profile was already as
capacious as it could get before she arrived in the Senate"
  

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It's just a variant of the structure "as + adjective + as + it/they + get) This car is as good as they get. (=you probably won't find a better car than this one) In your sentence, "as capacious as it could get" means that you'd be hard pressed to find a person whose national profile is as big as Hillary's.

— Ivanhr

  • It's just a variant of the structure "as + adjective + as + it/they + get) This car is as good as they get.
  • (=you probably won't find a better car than this one) In your sentence, "as capacious as it could get" means that you'd be hard pressed to find a person whose national profile is as big as Hillary's.
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It's just a variant of the structure "as + adjective + as + it/they + get)

This car is as good as they get. (=you probably won't find a better car than this one)

In your sentence, "as capacious as it could get" means that you'd be hard pressed to find a person whose national profile is as big as Hillary's.
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