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Hasibrahman Could anyone please explain the parts in bold? "Meanwhile, back in X" is a formula from the old silent movie serial cliffhangers. They would put those words up on the screen.
- Hasibrahman Could anyone please explain the parts in bold?
- "Meanwhile, back in X" is a formula from the old silent movie serial cliffhangers.
- They would put those words up on the screen.
- For example, they might show our hero having a gunfight with the bad guys out in some canyon, put up "Meanwhile, back at the sawmill", and then show Polly Purebred being lashed to a log by the villain, about to be sawed in half.
- It was a laughably direct way of changing scenes and is used today jocularly.
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HasibrahmanCould anyone please explain the parts in bold?
"Meanwhile, back in X" is a formula from the old silent movie serial cliffhangers. They would put those words up on the screen. For example, they might show our hero having a gunfight with the bad guys out in some canyon, put up "Meanwhile, back at the sawmill", and then show Polly Purebred being las
0"back in X" literally means "returned to the place X", as in e.g. "I have been staying in Manchester for a few days, but now I'm back in London". In your case, the figurative "place" is a state or condition of "reality", as contrasted with an implausible or fanciful situation.
"accept" would not be correct here. This is because of "while".
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