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Teeronline Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Over the transom
Hi again everyone,
I have seen this phrase - over the transom, in many occasions. It happened mostly when people were saying things like "I've heard a story over the transom" or something like " the news that came over the transom". The definitions that I've got for "transom" was either a wooden bar for window or a part behind a boat; in which case my mind kind of resist to relate them to the meaning in question.
So does it may be meaning something close to a gossip of sort? Like when you say you've heard a story over the transom that mean you got it from others' gossip? This is my prime guess btw.
Thank
I have seen this phrase - over the transom, in many occasions. It happened mostly when people were saying things like "I've heard a story over the transom" or something like " the news that came over the transom". The definitions that I've got for "transom" was either a wooden bar for window or a part behind a boat; in which case my mind kind of resist to relate them to the meaning in question.
So does it may be meaning something close to a gossip of sort? Like when you say you've heard a story over the transom that mean you got it from others' gossip? This is my prime guess btw.
Thank
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A transom is a small section above a door which lets in light or which can be opened like a window for ventilation as shown. The meaning of "over-the-transom" is "unsolicited", that is, submitted to a publisher for publication without prior contact, the idea being that a manuscript might be thrown through an open transom into a publisher's office in the hope that the author's work might be published. I am not familiar with a definition that has to do with gossip, but it makes sense.
- A transom is a small section above a door which lets in light or which can be opened like a window for ventilation as shown.
- The meaning of "over-the-transom" is "unsolicited", that is, submitted to a publisher for publication without prior contact, the idea being that a manuscript might be thrown through an open transom into a publisher's office in the hope that the author's work might be published.
- I am not familiar with a definition that has to do with gossip, but it makes sense.
- You can hear people talking in the next room if the door between rooms has a transom that is open.
- CJ
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A transom is a small section above a door which lets in light or which can be opened like a window for ventilation as shown.
The meaning of "over-the-transom" is "unsolicited", that is, submitted to a publisher for publication without prior contact, the idea being that a manuscript might be thrown through an open transom into a publisher's office in the hope that the author's work might
The meaning of "over-the-transom" is "unsolicited", that is, submitted to a publisher for publication without prior contact, the idea being that a manuscript might be thrown through an open transom into a publisher's office in the hope that the author's work might
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