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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

idiom

Meaning of the sentence "His laboratory started by taking
the mice out of the equation".
  

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Just a guess, without context: His first step was to stop using laboratory mice (or never to start using them), in order to eliminate factors in his studies which were peculiar to mice. In general, as an idiom, it means to eliminate a particular factor, literally or figuratively.

  • Just a guess, without context: His first step was to stop using laboratory mice (or never to start using them), in order to eliminate factors in his studies which were peculiar to mice.
  • In general, as an idiom, it means to eliminate a particular factor, literally or figuratively.
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Just a guess, without context:

His first step was to stop using laboratory mice (or never to start using them), in order to eliminate factors in his studies which were peculiar to mice.

In general, as an idiom, it means to eliminate a particular factor, literally or figuratively.

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