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Vocabulary
It'd take .../think of things
Hi
A little girl (Ethel) wants to eat a cake and tells her granny: a glass of your cowslip’d
go with it nicely.’
The granny says to a young lady who came to visit them:
It’d take Ethel to think of that,’ Mrs Rigby said with
fatuous pride. ‘Ethel’s the one to think of things, I must
say.’
Does it mean: It took her some time before she figured it out (that a cowslip would go nicely with a cake)?
"to think of things" - does it mean she's the one who thinks too much?
A little girl (Ethel) wants to eat a cake and tells her granny: a glass of your cowslip’d
go with it nicely.’
The granny says to a young lady who came to visit them:
It’d take Ethel to think of that,’ Mrs Rigby said with
fatuous pride. ‘Ethel’s the one to think of things, I must
say.’
Does it mean: It took her some time before she figured it out (that a cowslip would go nicely with a cake)?
"to think of things" - does it mean she's the one who thinks too much?
Top answer
No, time has nothing to do with it. It suggests that Ethel is the only person to think of/to come up with something like that. It takes two men to carry this luggagge.
- No, time has nothing to do with it.
- It suggests that Ethel is the only person to think of/to come up with something like that.
- It takes two men to carry this luggagge.
- (Two men are needed to carry this luggagge (because it's too heavy for just one man to carry it) think of something = to come up with something (an idea or such)
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No, time has nothing to do with it. It suggests that Ethel is the only person to think of/to come up with something like that.
It takes two men to carry this luggagge. (Two men are needed to carry this luggagge (because it's too heavy for just one man to carry it)
think of something = to come up with something (an idea or such)
It takes two men to carry this luggagge. (Two men are needed to carry this luggagge (because it's too heavy for just one man to carry it)
think of something = to come up with something (an idea or such)
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Hi
So "to think of things" would mean that she's the only one who thinks of everything?
So "to think of things" would mean that she's the only one who thinks of everything?
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