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Musicgold Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Lose your tie

Hi,

I have heard my native friends saying the following sentence. What they are saying by it is that I can leave my tie behind and need not wear it for where we are going. I know its a slang.

1. you can lose your tie.

Given that, is the following sentence correct?

2. I should have lost my tie in the room.

Thanks,

MG.
  

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Hi MG; The sentence is grammatically correct, but the idiomatic meaning (you don't have to wear a tie where we are going; you can take it off) has been lost. To me it means your tie is missing, and you wish you had lost it in the room, because perhaps, it would be easier to find or recover.

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  • Hi MG; The sentence is grammatically correct, but the idiomatic meaning (you don't have to wear a tie where we are going; you can take it off) has been lost.
  • To me it means your tie is missing, and you wish you had lost it in the room, because perhaps, it would be easier to find or recover.
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Hi MG;

The sentence is grammatically correct, but the idiomatic meaning (you don't have to wear a tie where we are going; you can take it off) has been lost.

To me it means your tie is missing, and you wish you had lost it in the room, because perhaps, it would be easier to find or recover.
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it means "get relax, calmdown"

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