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L3lack_light Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Grace in motion
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Can you please help me understand what "in motion" means in the following paragraph? Thank you very much.
Lance Armstrong has announced that he will no longer fight accusations from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his historic cycling career. Though the seven-time Tour de France winner still asserts his innocence, he now faces the loss of all the titles and associated prize money he has won since 1998. But what set Armstrong's epic fall from grace in motion and why is it culminating now? Life's Little Mysteries explains.
Can you please help me understand what "in motion" means in the following paragraph? Thank you very much.
Lance Armstrong has announced that he will no longer fight accusations from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his historic cycling career. Though the seven-time Tour de France winner still asserts his innocence, he now faces the loss of all the titles and associated prize money he has won since 1998. But what set Armstrong's epic fall from grace in motion and why is it culminating now? Life's Little Mysteries explains.
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Parse it differently: what set in motion his fall from grace. Do you know the idiom "fall from grace"?
- Parse it differently: what set in motion his fall from grace.
- Do you know the idiom "fall from grace"?
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Parse it differently: what set in motion his fall from grace.
Do you know the idiom "fall from grace"?
Do you know the idiom "fall from grace"?
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I do Grammar Geek! Thank you!
I obviously wasn't paying enough attention. Thanks.
I obviously wasn't paying enough attention. Thanks.
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It was a natural mistake that even a native speaker might make in a first reading, because we do use phrases like "He was poetry in motion" to mean someone who moves very gracefully or elegantly.
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And can you please help me with this part:
"But what set Armstrong's epic fall from grace in motion and why is it culminating now?"
What does "it" refer to here?
"But what set Armstrong's epic fall from grace in motion and why is it culminating now?"
What does "it" refer to here?
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Why is the fall from grace culminating now?
(After all this time, why is it just now reaching its final phase?)
(After all this time, why is it just now reaching its final phase?)
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