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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Help me to understand the phrases pls

Hello. I am not english native speaker. I'm trying to understand the comic http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/
Could you please explain for me the meaning of the phrases (if they are not special for comic but just idioms)
1. Not to spare. Does it mean "do not regret"?
2. Scrapers are always so cold. He tries to offend officers or is it the contraction of "scyscraper"?
  

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While link is being checked, I write out sentences 1. Officers:You are fined 400 $. A: We had 400 $?

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  • While link is being checked, I write out sentences 1.
  • Officers:You are fined 400 $.
  • A: We had 400 $?
  • B.
  • Not to spare.
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While link is being checked, I write out sentences

1.
Officers:You are fined 400 $.
A: We had 400 $?
B. Not to spare.

2. Alien tells -
"I can sell some muck"... "Those scrapers are always so cold"...
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1) They had 400 credits with them, but they needed it for something else, so now they must get more money to replace the 400 credits they just had to pay.
2) I don't know what this means. It might be understandable to someone who regularly reads this comic.
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Anonymous2. Alien tells - "I can sell some muck"... "Those scrapers are always so cold"...
Definition of scraper http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/scraper
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AnonymousA: We had 400 $?B. Not to spare.
They didn't have an extra 400 credits (dollars, pounds, rubles, - a currency) that they could use to pay this fine.
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But in this definition it has no sense - "the tools for scraping are cold"...
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Perhaps the scraper is the tool he uses to scrape up the muck that he sells.
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Yep, it could be, it makes definite sense, thanks a lot.
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