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Bepleased Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Make a decision

Hello,Please tell me the understanding correct or not?1. never make a decison on an empty stomach = never make a decision under an empty stomach?2. make a decision to do what = make a decision with regard to doing what ?Thank you for your help.
  

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bepleased Please tell me the understanding correct or not No, it is not correct. I believe the normal collocation is " Don't Make Decisions on an Empty Stomach bepleased 2. Thank you for your help.

— Dimsumexpress

  • bepleased Please tell me the understanding correct or not No, it is not correct.
  • I believe the normal collocation is " Don't Make Decisions on an Empty Stomach bepleased 2.
  • Thank you for your help.
  • Where did you get the idea that there is a "what" involved ?
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bepleasedPlease tell me the understanding correct or not
No, it is not correct.

I believe the normal collocation is " Don't Make Decisions on an Empty Stomach
bepleased2. make a decision to do what = make a decision with regard to doing what ?Thank you for your help.
Where did you get the idea that the
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Hello,As your line ----Don't make decisions in the condition of an empty stomach.Does "on" mean "in the condition of"?And "make a decision" is to respond to doing something?
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Decisions on - is part of the idiomatic collocation built into the language which has no explanations, and no one should spend the time to analyze the meaning of "on" in my opinion.
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bepleased Never make a decision on an empty stomach.
Do not at any time make a decision to do anything when your stomach is empty.

'on' might be paraphrased as 'when you have' in this sentence, so your thought that it
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