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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

delicacy

To pour suggests delicacy, care. It suggests you value the liquid.

I know delicacy means (weak or fragile)

But I can't understand the above sentence with this meaning.

Could you explain it?
  

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If you do something "with delicacy" it means you do it very carefully. " I pour water in a glass without thinking about it.

— BarbaraPA

  • If you do something "with delicacy" it means you do it very carefully.
  • " I pour water in a glass without thinking about it.
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If you do something "with delicacy" it means you do it very carefully.

I don't know why "pour" suggests that (unless you are contrasting with "dump" or "splash." I pour water in a glass without thinking about it.
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