Meaning of ‘raisin’
Meaning of ‘raisin’
The passage below is from Jellyfish age backwards by Nicklas Brendborg.
What actually happens when you sunbathe is that your skin is exposed to UV radiation and gets damaged by it. This initiates a cascade of signals inside your cells, which eventually makes them produce the pigment melanin to protect themselves. Sunbathing is no problem in small doses – it might even be hormetic – but if you overdo it, your risk of skin cancer and wrinkles increases dramatically. Wouldn’t it be a lot easier if we didn’t have to risk skin cancer (and turning into a raisin) to get a tan?
In this passage I want to know the meaning of the underlined ‘raisin’.
Here I don’t think it exactly means its most common meaning ‘a dried grape’.
It seems to metaphorically mean a cancerous mole on the skin. (Am I right?)
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
Stenka25 I don’t think it exactly means its most common meaning ‘a dried grape’. Yes, it does. The meaning is something like 'turning into something as wrinkled as a raisin'.
- Stenka25 I don’t think it exactly means its most common meaning ‘a dried grape’.
- Yes, it does.
- The meaning is something like 'turning into something as wrinkled as a raisin'.
- Close-up of a raisin.
- Note the wrinkled appearance.
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Stenka25I don’t think it exactly means its most common meaning ‘a dried grape’.
Yes, it does. The meaning is something like 'turning into something as wrinkled as a raisin'.
Close-up of a raisin. Note the wrinkled appearance.
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