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Kapa Posted 12 years ago
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would you tell me the meaning of bold part? "Pulled back into"
“That first occasion had been an accident. Charmaine had stayed behind at the house after Stan had left, finishing the final tidy, as she’d always done in those days. “You go on ahead,” she used to tell him, to get him out of her hair, which was pulled back into her housekeeping ponytail. She liked her cleanup routine, she liked to put on her pinafore apron and her rubber gloves and tick the items off her mental list without being interrupted.”
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would you tell me the meaning of bold part? "Pulled back into"
“That first occasion had been an accident. Charmaine had stayed behind at the house after Stan had left, finishing the final tidy, as she’d always done in those days. “You go on ahead,” she used to tell him, to get him out of her hair, which was pulled back into her housekeeping ponytail. She liked her cleanup routine, she liked to put on her pinafore apron and her rubber gloves and tick the items off her mental list without being interrupted.”
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Her hair was pulled back (away from her face) and put in a ponytail. She would wear the ponytail while cleaning, to keep her hair out of her way.
- Her hair was pulled back (away from her face) and put in a ponytail.
- She would wear the ponytail while cleaning, to keep her hair out of her way.
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Her hair was pulled back (away from her face) and put in a ponytail. She would wear the ponytail while cleaning, to keep her hair out of her way.
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“You go on ahead,” she used to tell him, to get him out of her hair, which was pulled back into her housekeeping ponytail.
To get him "out of her hair" is an idiom, meaning to arrange things so he would not disturb her or bother her or be in her way. Then it switches, mid-sentence, from this idomatic use of "hair" to the literal meaning of hair -- which was pulled back from h
To get him "out of her hair" is an idiom, meaning to arrange things so he would not disturb her or bother her or be in her way. Then it switches, mid-sentence, from this idomatic use of "hair" to the literal meaning of hair -- which was pulled back from h
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