If I give them a knife, they will cut themselves.
Please see the following sentences. I saw these sentences in a grammar book. But I couldn't make out the exact meaning of both sentences. I think that the meaning of the first sentence is "If I give them a knife, they will play with it and there are chances of getting hurt" (May be they are children). I think that the meaning of the second sentence is more or less same. I'd like to get your opinion on this.
1) If I give them a knife, they will cut themselves.
2) If I give them a knife, they will get hurt.
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cat navy 425 1) If I give them a knife, they will cut themselves. It is not an idiom. It means exactly what the words tell us.
- cat navy 425 1) If I give them a knife, they will cut themselves.
- It is not an idiom.
- It means exactly what the words tell us.
- "They" and "them" refer to the same people.
- There some reasons I can think of why people might cut themselves with a knife.
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cat navy 4251) If I give them a knife, they will cut themselves.
It is not an idiom. It means exactly what the words tell us. "They" and "them" refer to the same people.
There some reasons I can think of why people might cut themselves with a knife.
1. People commit suicide by slitting their wrists. So maybe "they" are mentally depressed an
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