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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Does " highflying, bog-troting" mean "ambitious yet ill-fated"?
And "past slights" mean "the contempts who had suffered in the past"?
Context:
(Gone with the Wind)
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But, by God, I won't give you a cent now! You highflying, bog-troting Irish will find out who's running things around here when you get sold out for taxes. And I'll buy this place, lock, stock and barrel - furniture and all - and I'll live in it."
So it was Jonas Wilkerson who wanted Tara - Jonas and Emmie, who in some twisted way thought to even past slights by living in the home where they had been slighted. All her nerves hummed with hate, as they had hummed that day when she shoved the pistol barrel into the Yankee's bearded face and fired. She wished she had that pistol now.
Context:
(Gone with the Wind)
...
But, by God, I won't give you a cent now! You highflying, bog-troting Irish will find out who's running things around here when you get sold out for taxes. And I'll buy this place, lock, stock and barrel - furniture and all - and I'll live in it."
So it was Jonas Wilkerson who wanted Tara - Jonas and Emmie, who in some twisted way thought to even past slights by living in the home where they had been slighted. All her nerves hummed with hate, as they had hummed that day when she shoved the pistol barrel into the Yankee's bearded face and fired. She wished she had that pistol now.
Top answer
Past slights means insults or treatment with contempt they had experienced in the past. High-flying means very successful . Bog-trotter is an insulting name for Irish people.
- Past slights means insults or treatment with contempt they had experienced in the past.
- High-flying means very successful .
- Bog-trotter is an insulting name for Irish people.
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Past slights means insults or treatment with contempt they had experienced in the past.
High-flying means very successful.
Bog-trotter is an insulting name for Irish people.
High-flying means very successful.
Bog-trotter is an insulting name for Irish people.
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Well, bog-troting literarily means troting on bog - referring to that life is tough for them.
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It suggests that they are uncivilized country people who live in bogs. (By the way, trotter)
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Blue JayBog-trotter is an insulting name for Irish people.I've never run across this insult, but it is rather colorful.
My ancestors were Scots-Irish who immigrated to North Carolina.
In the old country, the bogs were the source of peat, which was dug up and used for fuel for heating and cooking.
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