Grind to grind, shot to shot, and dog to dog
In an English novel, there is a scene about an urban city, and I found the following expression hard to understand. Could you help?
"Grind to grind, shot to shot, and dog to dog, people learned to get along with the hassles of one sunrise and the next."
For me, the tough part is "Grind to grind, shot to shot, and dog to dog."
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It's hard to me, too. I'm just trying to guess the general meaning. It sounds to me that living in that city was too hard.
- It's hard to me, too.
- I'm just trying to guess the general meaning.
- It sounds to me that living in that city was too hard.
- It sounds like the city was filled with crime, fights on the streets etc.
- People have to deal with such hardships on a daily basis.
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It's hard to me, too. I'm just trying to guess the general meaning.
It sounds to me that living in that city was too hard. It sounds like the city was filled with crime, fights on the streets etc. People have to deal with such hardships on a daily basis.
I'm not sure of the answer.
0I can only guess. "Grind" refers to the daily grind, an expression meaning the drudgery of going to a menial job day after day. The shot is a gunshot in reference to crime in a city. The dog is the one in the expression "it's a dog-eat-dog world", meaning that no one has any regard for anyone else's well-being and will act on selfish principles no matter who gets hurt.
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