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Bambang Irawan Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
Moby Dick Novels
What does the phrase 'methodically knocking people’s hats off' mean?
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Do you have a reason to think that it doesn't mean what it literally says?
- Do you have a reason to think that it doesn't mean what it literally says?
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Do you have a reason to think that it doesn't mean what it literally says?
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More Melville. He narrator says that when he gets the urge to methodically (i.e., deliberately and purposefully) knock people's hats off their heads -- a particularly hostile act -- he knows he's spent too much time on land and that he needs to go to sea.
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