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MrPernickety Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
Meaning of "good case"
Hi,
I came across a sentence along the lines of this one:
We talked a good case about his car.
Could you tell me what "a good case" is supposed to mean? My educated guess would be "a great deal".
Thanks !
I came across a sentence along the lines of this one:
We talked a good case about his car.
Could you tell me what "a good case" is supposed to mean? My educated guess would be "a great deal".
Thanks !
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Hi Alex The wording of that sentence doesn't seem completely natural to me. Maybe additional context would help, and possibly you've run into a creative usage. In the context of your sentence, the commonly used collocation "a good case" suggests that someone was speaking persuasively -- in order to sell the car, for example.
- Hi Alex The wording of that sentence doesn't seem completely natural to me.
- Maybe additional context would help, and possibly you've run into a creative usage.
- In the context of your sentence, the commonly used collocation "a good case" suggests that someone was speaking persuasively -- in order to sell the car, for example.
- To me, " talked a good case about " seems to suggest "presented effective arguments in favor of", but the wording strikes me as unusual.
- It would sound more typical to say " made a good case for ".
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Hi Alex
The wording of that sentence doesn't seem completely natural to me. Maybe additional context would help, and possibly you've run into a creative usage.
In the context of your sentence, the commonly used collocation "a good case" suggests that someone was speaking persuasively -- in order to sell the car, for example.
To me, "talked a good case about
The wording of that sentence doesn't seem completely natural to me. Maybe additional context would help, and possibly you've run into a creative usage.
In the context of your sentence, the commonly used collocation "a good case" suggests that someone was speaking persuasively -- in order to sell the car, for example.
To me, "talked a good case about
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