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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

end to end

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
This quip from George Bernard Shaw is revealing. Could tell me what end to end is?
  

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This is a "play" on a common phrase: If you lay all the abandoned cars in American junkyards end to end (lined up, one in front of the other), they would reach around the equator three times. ) Shaw is being his normal, witty and biting self here. He is using a device that makes the reader think that something familiar will end the sentence, but he changes directions completely.

— Philip

  • This is a "play" on a common phrase: If you lay all the abandoned cars in American junkyards end to end (lined up, one in front of the other), they would reach around the equator three times.
  • ) Shaw is being his normal, witty and biting self here.
  • He is using a device that makes the reader think that something familiar will end the sentence, but he changes directions completely.
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This is a "play" on a common phrase: If you lay all the abandoned cars in American junkyards end to end (lined up, one in front of the other), they would reach around the equator three times. (Just an example, not true that I know of.) Shaw is being his normal, witty and biting self here. He is using a device that makes the reader think that something familiar will end the sentence, but he cha
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Got it. Thank you!
By the way, if the word 'bite' you used here means self-mockery?
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Mockery (not self-). Self as used in my sentence simply means him. I hope that's clear, even though I haven't stated it very well.
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It's very clear. Thank you!
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