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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Idiom(atic expression) meaning
I'm struggling with the meaning of the following expression; (to create) ripples on a foreign shore (foreign shores)
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"But Elizabeth didn’t want to hear his apologies or explanations. It was all so clear. A stupid crime and a simple misdirection, prison and pointless death, ripples on some foreign shore." (J. Hart - Redemption Road)
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"But Elizabeth didn’t want to hear his apologies or explanations. It was all so clear. A stupid crime and a simple misdirection, prison and pointless death, ripples on some foreign shore." (J. Hart - Redemption Road)
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Anonymous Here is some context... It sounds like it comes from a rather long passage in a novel, so it doesn't give enough of a flavor of Elizabeth's or "his" character to judge the meaning exactly. , the way the water lapped against the shore in a distant country.
- Anonymous Here is some context...
- It sounds like it comes from a rather long passage in a novel, so it doesn't give enough of a flavor of Elizabeth's or "his" character to judge the meaning exactly.
- , the way the water lapped against the shore in a distant country.
- In other words, she was affected very little by these explanations.
- However, this is just a guess.
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AnonymousHere is some context...It sounds like it comes from a rather long passage in a novel, so it doesn't give enough of a flavor of Elizabeth's or "his" character to judge the meaning exactly. My guess is that these explanations were of no more concern to Elizabeth than ripples on a foreign shore, i.e., the way the water lapped against the shore in a dis
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