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Vanny90 Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

need help

  1. I read a book, there is a sentence goes that "You name it, it's yours."
    I don't get it what this means, can somebody help me out?


  2. what is the meaning of "not a thing"?



  3. could someone explain the following sentence "I'd see to it that they never wanted for anything money could buy."


    4. Thanks a lot.
  

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1. Name anything you want and you can have it ("name" in the sense of "say the name of the object"). 2.

— J Lewis

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  • Name anything you want and you can have it ("name" in the sense of "say the name of the object").
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  • "Not a thing" is a more emphatic way of saying "nothing".
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1. Name anything you want and you can have it ("name" in the sense of "say the name of the object").
2. "Not a thing" is a more emphatic way of saying "nothing".
3. "To want" here means to be in a state of need. "They never wanted for anything money could buy" means that if something could be bought they could have it. They were never deprived materially. "I'd see to it..." means I would
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I'll make sure that they aren't in need for anything, irrespective of how expensive that could be.
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