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Vocabulary
Light bulb going on
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A certain psychic says about her abilities when she was still at school: Another useful discovery from my school days was that I knew whenever our teachers were planning any sort of surprise test. It was never like a light bulb going on. It simply occured to me on the walk to school. I would just be walking along, thinking of nothing in particular, and it would float into my head - test today!
--- I'm not sure I understand that "light bulb going on". What was she trying to say?
A certain psychic says about her abilities when she was still at school: Another useful discovery from my school days was that I knew whenever our teachers were planning any sort of surprise test. It was never like a light bulb going on. It simply occured to me on the walk to school. I would just be walking along, thinking of nothing in particular, and it would float into my head - test today!
--- I'm not sure I understand that "light bulb going on". What was she trying to say?
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A 'light bulb going on' is a sudden, lucid idea.
- A 'light bulb going on' is a sudden, lucid idea.
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But it sounds like a contradiction to what follows. She says it was NEVER like it and then continues that it occured to her on her walk to school.
But it sounds like a contradiction to what follows. She says it was NEVER like it and then continues that it occured to her on her walk to school.
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So you will have to think about how the description of her experience in the following part of the sentence is unlike 'a sudden, lucid idea'.
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