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Monkey_D Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
eye fairies around to leave quarters under pillows.
Please help me about this sentences
"The baby eyes don't drop out, nor are there eye fairies around to leave quarters under pillows. But new eyes do arrive neveretheless. Big kid eyes replace little-kid eyes.
I don't understand the words in red. Thanks a lot.
"The baby eyes don't drop out, nor are there eye fairies around to leave quarters under pillows. But new eyes do arrive neveretheless. Big kid eyes replace little-kid eyes.
I don't understand the words in red. Thanks a lot.
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This means the "eye teeth" - the canine teeth [the pointed ones at the front]. Usually we only refer to the "tooth fairy" who leaves a small coin for each milk tooth a child loses as the permanent teeth come through.
- This means the "eye teeth" - the canine teeth [the pointed ones at the front].
- Usually we only refer to the "tooth fairy" who leaves a small coin for each milk tooth a child loses as the permanent teeth come through.
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This means the "eye teeth" - the canine teeth [the pointed ones at the front].
Usually we only refer to the "tooth fairy" who leaves a small coin for each milk tooth a child loses as the permanent teeth come through.
Usually we only refer to the "tooth fairy" who leaves a small coin for each milk tooth a child loses as the permanent teeth come through.
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Hi Feebs,
"The baby eyes don't drop out, nor are there eye fairies around to leave quarters under pillows. But new eyes do arrive neveretheless. Big kid eyes replace little-kid eyes.
It doesn't read to me like a reference to eye-teeth. It seems like the writer is sa
"The baby eyes don't drop out, nor are there eye fairies around to leave quarters under pillows. But new eyes do arrive neveretheless. Big kid eyes replace little-kid eyes.
It doesn't read to me like a reference to eye-teeth. It seems like the writer is sa
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Interesting. My reading was more like Clive's although I thought it meant that as the child grow the eyes undergoe significant physical changes. (I think, for instance, that infants can't focus on things very far away.) It would be nice to know what follows the quoted passage.
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Oh many thanks for all your help. This is all the paragraph.
"By the end of third grade, most of the kids' baby teeth were gone. The permanent ones had arrived in their mouths. Around fourth grade something similar happens with eyes.The baby eyes don't drop out, nor are there eye fairies around to leave quarters under pillows. But new eyes do arrive neveretheless. Big kid eyes replace
"By the end of third grade, most of the kids' baby teeth were gone. The permanent ones had arrived in their mouths. Around fourth grade something similar happens with eyes.The baby eyes don't drop out, nor are there eye fairies around to leave quarters under pillows. But new eyes do arrive neveretheless. Big kid eyes replace
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Me too - I thought it was like a loss of innocence, or something - seeing things as an adult does, with "adult eyes."
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Sometimes the obvious is the right answer, and the full context helps to find it! 
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