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Contraposition Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

for all I knew

Dear native teachers
Can you help me understand three phrases?

1. What does 'too nosy to live' mean?
2. What does 'for al I knew' mean?
3. What does 'have a special gift with trolls' mean?
  

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1) You must die because you are so inquisitive . Nosy suggests trying to find out about other people's private business, things that are nothing to do with you. 2) I didn't know for sure, but it might have been that/I thought that/I was afraid that.....

— Blue Jay

  • 1) You must die because you are so inquisitive .
  • Nosy suggests trying to find out about other people's private business, things that are nothing to do with you.
  • 2) I didn't know for sure, but it might have been that/I thought that/I was afraid that.....
  • 3) I get along with trolls, or I am good at getting trolls to do what I want.
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1) You must die because you are so inquisitive.
Nosy suggests trying to find out about other people's private business, things that are nothing to do with you.
2) I didn't know for sure, but it might have been that/I thought that/I was afraid that.....
3) I get along with trolls, or I am good at getting trolls to do what I want.
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Thank you. But I don't understand question 2. Can you please give me more explanations about it?
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http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/for+all+I+know

"for all I knew / for all I know" is an idiom.
It implies thinking about everything that you know, and not finding a match, but suspecting that the following idea vaguely might be true, or seems like it could be true.

eg. You and
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