Out over the floor
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Reporter: Hi. Today we're here with Captain Paul Lesley of the fire department and he's going to
give us a few tips about fire prevention around a stove.
Captain: Secondly, don't have your pot handles out over the floor like this; a little person can come by and pull that down on top of them. I think we'll turn the pot handle off to the side.
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What does "don't have your pot handles out over the floor" mean?
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"Out over" is not a standard collocation or anything. "Out" is a simple adverb there, as in "out there" or "out in the cold". The handle is outside the confines of the stovetop.
- "Out over" is not a standard collocation or anything.
- "Out" is a simple adverb there, as in "out there" or "out in the cold".
- The handle is outside the confines of the stovetop.
- By "over the floor" he means that if you look straight down from the handle, you see floor and not stovetop.
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"Out over" is not a standard collocation or anything. "Out" is a simple adverb there, as in "out there" or "out in the cold". The handle is outside the confines of the stovetop. By "over the floor" he means that if you look straight down from the handle, you see floor and not stovetop.
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