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1000fall Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Jump out of a birthday cake
here is the example:
Director of the TV show: when you bring the character back who was killed in the last season, you can't just jump out of a birthday cake. We need a good explanation for the audience.
..what does "jump out of a birthday cake" mean? Same meaning as "come out of the blue"?
Director of the TV show: when you bring the character back who was killed in the last season, you can't just jump out of a birthday cake. We need a good explanation for the audience.
..what does "jump out of a birthday cake" mean? Same meaning as "come out of the blue"?
Top answer
I take it you have seen in movies a big cake that is wheeled into a room where a birthday party is going, and at the right moment a dancer, that has been inside the cake the whole time, jumps out of it and starts dancing to the amazement of the gathered people. So, in conclusion, to jump out of the cake is to make a surprise appearance that noone has expected. A killed person can't reappear out of the blue (jump out of the cake), because people don't come back from the dead.
- I take it you have seen in movies a big cake that is wheeled into a room where a birthday party is going, and at the right moment a dancer, that has been inside the cake the whole time, jumps out of it and starts dancing to the amazement of the gathered people.
- So, in conclusion, to jump out of the cake is to make a surprise appearance that noone has expected.
- A killed person can't reappear out of the blue (jump out of the cake), because people don't come back from the dead.
- The audience need a good explanation for it (like the person in question wasn't in fact killed, but staged his death for example and had been hiding out the whole time)
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I take it you have seen in movies a big cake that is wheeled into a room where a birthday party is going, and at the right moment a dancer, that has been inside the cake the whole time, jumps out of it and starts dancing to the amazement of the gathered people.
So, in conclusion, to jump out of the cake is to make a surprise appearance that noone has expected. A killed person can't reapp
So, in conclusion, to jump out of the cake is to make a surprise appearance that noone has expected. A killed person can't reapp
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