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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Connotation of words.

I'm on the couch because the dog on the blanket gets worried at night. During the day she sleeps the catnappy sleep of the elderly, but when it gets dark he eyes open and she is agitated. I'm next to her. We are in this together, the dying game. and I read for hours in the evening with one foot her back, getting up only to open a new can of beer or take blankets to the basement. At some point I stretch out on the vinyl couch and close my eyes, one had hanging down, touching her side. By morning the dog arm has become a nerveless club that doesn't come around until noon. My friends think I an nuts.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know what "dog arm" and "club" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon I'd like to know what "dog arm" and "club" means. Dog arm = the arm that he has used to touch his dog while he slept. Club = a hefty stick of wood.

— Mister Micawber

  • park sang joon I'd like to know what "dog arm" and "club" means.
  • Dog arm = the arm that he has used to touch his dog while he slept.
  • Club = a hefty stick of wood.
  • Here it is metaphoric: his arm has 'fallen asleep' and he cannot feel it again until noon.
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park sang joonI'd like to know what "dog arm" and "club" means.
Dog arm = the arm that he has used to touch his dog while he slept.
Club = a hefty stick of wood. Here it is metaphoric: his arm has 'fallen asleep' and he cannot feel it again until noon.
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Thank you, Mr. Micawber, for another very helpful answer from you.Emotion: smile
Then I'd like to know it was the author that made the compoun
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park sang joonI'd like to know it was the author that made the compound noun "dog arm."
Yes, that's right. It is just ad hoc.
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