Hello!! I don't know what the meanings of these sentenses are. I would really appreciate it if you could help me!!
1. I felf like we got the monkey off our back. 2. Did I get stern with you? 3. Let me flip to the business side 4. either we knock the cover off the ball or we strike out.
Thank you!
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1. 'I felt like we got the monkey off our back' -- I felt that we had been relieved of an onerous responsibility. 2.
— Mister Micawber
1.
'I felt like we got the monkey off our back' -- I felt that we had been relieved of an onerous responsibility.
2.
' -- If this is an idiom, I do not know it; to me, it simply asks whether I castigated you.
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I wouldn't use "monkey off your back." Like the expression "cold turkey" it has become connoted with junkies who are coming out of a post-use depression.