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Vocabulary
licking his lips over
Does "This whilst licking his lips over" mean "This whilst he was talking about" (referring to the past)?
Further on in the walk, on Borough Road, Wentworth is talking on his mobile phone. It seems oddly inappropriate. Not just because he is mid-performance, as it were, but because shortly before he has confessed rather proudly to his lack of conversance with modern information and communications technology. This whilst licking his lips over the look and feel of an ‘old-style’ Royal Mail pillar box, one of those double-barrelled ones with two slits, ‘usually manufactured in Glasgow’, as he claims.
Further on in the walk, on Borough Road, Wentworth is talking on his mobile phone. It seems oddly inappropriate. Not just because he is mid-performance, as it were, but because shortly before he has confessed rather proudly to his lack of conversance with modern information and communications technology. This whilst licking his lips over the look and feel of an ‘old-style’ Royal Mail pillar box, one of those double-barrelled ones with two slits, ‘usually manufactured in Glasgow’, as he claims.
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" This means that he found thinking about "the look and feel of an ‘old-style’ Royal Mail pillar box, one of those double-barreled ones with two slits, ‘usually manufactured in Glasgow’ " so appealing, so wonderful, that he was licking his lips the way a person does when he/she thinks about something delicious to eat. That expression is used to show how much someone likes or desires something.
- " This means that he found thinking about "the look and feel of an ‘old-style’ Royal Mail pillar box, one of those double-barreled ones with two slits, ‘usually manufactured in Glasgow’ " so appealing, so wonderful, that he was licking his lips the way a person does when he/she thinks about something delicious to eat.
- That expression is used to show how much someone likes or desires something.
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"This whilst licking his lips over..."
This means that he found thinking about "the look and feel of an ‘old-style’ Royal Mail pillar box, one of those double-barreled ones with two slits, ‘usually manufactured in Glasgow’ " so appealing, so wonderful, that he was licking his lips the way a person does when he/she thinks about something delicious to eat. That expression is used to show ho
This means that he found thinking about "the look and feel of an ‘old-style’ Royal Mail pillar box, one of those double-barreled ones with two slits, ‘usually manufactured in Glasgow’ " so appealing, so wonderful, that he was licking his lips the way a person does when he/she thinks about something delicious to eat. That expression is used to show ho
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