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Grapepark Posted 10 years ago
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Home in on...
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I don't understand the first part of this sentence. Would you please paraphrase it?
He homes in on ‘the crying contradictions' (170) of his age which, like capital in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, are the ‘inversion and confusion of all human qualities', muddles he can only theoretically see beyond.
I don't understand the first part of this sentence. Would you please paraphrase it?
He homes in on ‘the crying contradictions' (170) of his age which, like capital in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, are the ‘inversion and confusion of all human qualities', muddles he can only theoretically see beyond.
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Hi I believe that the phrase refers to pigeons! If you take a pigeon a long way from its home and then let it fly, it will fly back to where it lives. It has an amazing innate ability to do that - it 'homes in on' that place So the metaphor is saying the same about Marx (I think it's him).
- Hi I believe that the phrase refers to pigeons!
- If you take a pigeon a long way from its home and then let it fly, it will fly back to where it lives.
- It has an amazing innate ability to do that - it 'homes in on' that place So the metaphor is saying the same about Marx (I think it's him).
- In all of his work, he has a great ability to cross distances and find the place that he is searching out Dave
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Hi
I believe that the phrase refers to pigeons! If you take a pigeon a long way from its home and then let it fly, it will fly back to where it lives. It has an amazing innate ability to do that - it 'homes in on' that place
So the metaphor is saying the same about Marx (I think it's him). In all of his work, he has a great ability to cross distances and find the place that he
I believe that the phrase refers to pigeons! If you take a pigeon a long way from its home and then let it fly, it will fly back to where it lives. It has an amazing innate ability to do that - it 'homes in on' that place
So the metaphor is saying the same about Marx (I think it's him). In all of his work, he has a great ability to cross distances and find the place that he
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dave_anonHiI believe that the phrase refers to pigeons! If you take a pigeon a long way from its home and then let it fly, it will fly back to where it lives. It has an amazing innate ability to do that - it 'homes in on' that placeSo the metaphor is saying the same about Marx (I think it's him). In all of his work, he has a great ability to cross distances and find the p
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Hi
That is right - it does mean obvious. There's a well-known UK idiom "Oh, for crying out loud!" This is used when the person you are speaking to hasn't understood something that is obvious
It only works with certain idioms. "It's a crying shame" is another
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That is right - it does mean obvious. There's a well-known UK idiom "Oh, for crying out loud!" This is used when the person you are speaking to hasn't understood something that is obvious
It only works with certain idioms. "It's a crying shame" is another
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