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Soheil1 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
(chess) to make matters worse
Hi.
With the sentence:
"To make matters worse for White, the Black King will be able to make inroads into White camp. "
in mind, if we substitute the variable 'B' for the part after the comma, and 'A' for the condition that was mentioned prior to this statement, Does it mean that B>A? I mean, does it mean that B is worse than A? Or just that B adds to A and so makes the situation more dangerous(i.e. A +B > A)?
With the sentence:
"To make matters worse for White, the Black King will be able to make inroads into White camp. "
in mind, if we substitute the variable 'B' for the part after the comma, and 'A' for the condition that was mentioned prior to this statement, Does it mean that B>A? I mean, does it mean that B is worse than A? Or just that B adds to A and so makes the situation more dangerous(i.e. A +B > A)?
Top answer
A + B > A
- A + B > A
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So not necessarily B is worse than A but the synergy makes the situation more dangerous?
And does it imply that the situation was already dangerous?
And does it imply that the situation was already dangerous?
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OK, the algebra isn't working. The first thing is bad. How bad, doesn't matter. The second thing is bad, too, and it makes the whole business worse just by being one more bad thing. How much worse, doesn't matter. The second thing may or may not operate in combination with the first (synergy), doesn't matter.
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