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Dela Posted 15 years ago
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Mutant toy-eating foliage, stick her lips out

I did try to climb it (the sycamore) once in the fifth grade. It was the day after Juli had rescued my kite from its mutant toy-eating foliage. She climbed miles up to get my kite, and when she came down, she was actually very cool about it. She didn't hold my kite hostage and stick her lips out like I was afraid she might. She just handed it over and then backed away.

I have no idea of the meaning its mutant toy-eating foliage. Is it the cycamore tree? if so, it shall be HER mutant toy-eating foliage, wouldn't it?

I had seen "stick tongue out", but what is sticking her lips out like?
  

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Hi, Its refers to the kite. After all, this was the "object" which, in a metaphorical sense, "ate" the kite. And it must be a novel you're reading, so it's literature, and there you'll find things like calling a big tree a "mutant toy-eating foliage" when a kite has stuck into it when flying, for example.

— Anonymous

  • Hi, Its refers to the kite.
  • After all, this was the "object" which, in a metaphorical sense, "ate" the kite.
  • And it must be a novel you're reading, so it's literature, and there you'll find things like calling a big tree a "mutant toy-eating foliage" when a kite has stuck into it when flying, for example.
  • This phrase means just what it seems to mean.
  • As for the stick her lips out : it seems you can do it in several ways, like this for example or this
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Hi,

Its refers to the kite. After all, this was the "object" which, in a metaphorical sense, "ate" the kite.

And it must be a novel you're reading, so it's literature, and there you'll find things like calling a big tree a "mutant toy-eating foliage" when a kite has stuck into it when flying, for example. This phrase means just what it seems to mean.

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