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Dela Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Circus jags
My sister and dad were all business as usual, though. Lynetta ate about two raisins out of her carrot salad, then peeled the skin and meat off her chicken wing and nibbled gristle off the bone, while my father filled up airspace talking about office politics and the need for a shakedown in upper management.
No one was listening to him — no one ever does when he gets on one of his if-I-ran-the circus jags— but for once Mom wasn't even pretending.
I cann't find the meaning of circus jags. Is it somebody like a boss?
No one was listening to him — no one ever does when he gets on one of his if-I-ran-the circus jags— but for once Mom wasn't even pretending.
I cann't find the meaning of circus jags. Is it somebody like a boss?
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It has been incorrectly hyphenated and you have misread the collocation. It is this: one of his if-I-ran-the-circus jags = one of his long argumentative speeches ('jags') about how well he could manage the company.
- It has been incorrectly hyphenated and you have misread the collocation.
- It is this: one of his if-I-ran-the-circus jags = one of his long argumentative speeches ('jags') about how well he could manage the company.
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It has been incorrectly hyphenated and you have misread the collocation. It is this:
one of his if-I-ran-the-circus jags = one of his long argumentative speeches ('jags') about how well he could manage the company.
one of his if-I-ran-the-circus jags = one of his long argumentative speeches ('jags') about how well he could manage the company.
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