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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
'Out come the wolves' meaning
"Out come the wolves" - What does this phrase mean? How it can be interpreted?
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Hi, It's an unusual word order. A more normal version of the sentence is simply 'The wolves come out'. Do you have a context?
- Hi, It's an unusual word order.
- A more normal version of the sentence is simply 'The wolves come out'.
- Do you have a context?
- eg Is it a passage about actual wolves?
- Clive
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Hi,
It's an unusual word order. A more normal version of the sentence is simply 'The wolves come out'.
Do you have a context?
eg Is it a passage about actual wolves?
Clive
It's an unusual word order. A more normal version of the sentence is simply 'The wolves come out'.
Do you have a context?
eg Is it a passage about actual wolves?
Clive
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It's the title of Rancid album the title taken from a poem in Jim Carroll's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_Diaries. But it also appears in the lyrics for Zebrahead song 'Karma Flavoured Whisky' and some other songs. It's some kind of the metaphore, but as I'm not a native speaker I'm not sure abou
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Hi,
Titles are often rather hard to interpret. Perhaps there is a song that contains that line
Wolves are dangerous animals.
Can't tell you anything else.
Clive
Titles are often rather hard to interpret. Perhaps there is a song that contains that line
Wolves are dangerous animals.
Can't tell you anything else.
Clive
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Its about studio executives rushing out to to try and snap up punk bands because they were the in thing.
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Without context, this would generally mean that aggressive people are trying to take advantage of a desperate situation. For example:
"The company is floundering, deep in debt with no prospects for relief, but it's still a valuable business that just fell victim to bad management. Now, out come the wolves to carve it up."
"The company is floundering, deep in debt with no prospects for relief, but it's still a valuable business that just fell victim to bad management. Now, out come the wolves to carve it up."
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our society is full of wolves---in the streets, in businesses, legal, illegal. everywhere. Cops can be viewed as wolves, in the eyes of criminals and even to the general public. have you been in small towns? they live from those traffic tickets. that's all they do. that's all they care about. Punk bands in the 80's would write a lot about police brutality, subhumans, *** pistols. the c
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