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Vsuresh Posted 14 years ago
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Hi
Please help me with the meanings of some expressions in italics.
Context:
These lines are from Best Seller by O Henry. The story is about a man who criticizes best sellers for presenting what he calls unrealistic stories wherein ordinary men marry woman of royal households. Ironically he a plate -glass salesman marries a rich lady.
1. ..these kind of love stories are rank on- the-level.
2. he rings in three solid pages about America's uncrowned sovereigns.
3.He has a sword that might free Schutzenfestenstein from the plots of traitors.
4. His talk about freeing anything sounded as much like canned sardines.
How is it connected with canned sardines?
5. I did not mind let plate glass business go to smash for a while.
6. The train kept the right of way as much as possible.
Please help me with the meanings of some expressions in italics.
Context:
These lines are from Best Seller by O Henry. The story is about a man who criticizes best sellers for presenting what he calls unrealistic stories wherein ordinary men marry woman of royal households. Ironically he a plate -glass salesman marries a rich lady.
1. ..these kind of love stories are rank on- the-level.
2. he rings in three solid pages about America's uncrowned sovereigns.
3.He has a sword that might free Schutzenfestenstein from the plots of traitors.
4. His talk about freeing anything sounded as much like canned sardines.
How is it connected with canned sardines?
5. I did not mind let plate glass business go to smash for a while.
6. The train kept the right of way as much as possible.
Top answer
Hi Well, you have cleverly picked out the tricky ones. 1. these love-stories are very honest and fair on their part.
- Hi Well, you have cleverly picked out the tricky ones.
- 1.
- these love-stories are very honest and fair on their part.
- 2.
- three solid pages about America's uncrowned prince/princess/king/monarch...
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Hi
Well, you have cleverly picked out the tricky ones.
1. .....these love-stories are very honest and fair on their part.
2. .....three solid pages about America's uncrowned prince/princess/king/monarch...
3. Schutzenfestenstein is a fictious character in that story.
4. He talked as if the job(freeing the...) was so easy...
5. He completely
Well, you have cleverly picked out the tricky ones.
1. .....these love-stories are very honest and fair on their part.
2. .....three solid pages about America's uncrowned prince/princess/king/monarch...
3. Schutzenfestenstein is a fictious character in that story.
4. He talked as if the job(freeing the...) was so easy...
5. He completely
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note in 4. opening canned sardines is supposed to be easy- AND it when he says "...sounds as much as canned sardines" it also hints the fact that that schutzenfetenstein's pronunciation is supposed to sound similar/rhyme to that of 'canned sardines'! now theres a pun!
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