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Wowenglish Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Perspective
I would like to know the meaning of "it puts things into perspective".
Dave Talley, a homeless man who lives in Tempe, Arizona, found a backpack containing $3,300 in cash. He turned it into a local social services agency:
The temptation to keep the money was almost overwhelming, he said. Then, his conscience kicked in.
“The reality set in that it wasn’t my money and it needed to be turned over,” he said.
Inside the backpack was a flashdrive with a resume belonging to Bryan Belanger, a student at Arizona State University and the owner of the backpack:
“It’s humbling, and it puts things into perspective,” Belanger said of Talley’s decision. “From his point of view, he could’ve taken care of himself by paying for rent or something with that money.”
Dave Talley, a homeless man who lives in Tempe, Arizona, found a backpack containing $3,300 in cash. He turned it into a local social services agency:
The temptation to keep the money was almost overwhelming, he said. Then, his conscience kicked in.
“The reality set in that it wasn’t my money and it needed to be turned over,” he said.
Inside the backpack was a flashdrive with a resume belonging to Bryan Belanger, a student at Arizona State University and the owner of the backpack:
“It’s humbling, and it puts things into perspective,” Belanger said of Talley’s decision. “From his point of view, he could’ve taken care of himself by paying for rent or something with that money.”
Top answer
Wowenglish “It’s humbling, and it puts things into perspective,” It's a nice "feel good" thing to say. In this case it doesn't seem to mean anything specific. " To put something into perspective is to figuratively stand back and look at that thing in terms of the bigger picture - to try to see or understand how it fits into the larger scheme of things.
- Wowenglish “It’s humbling, and it puts things into perspective,” It's a nice "feel good" thing to say.
- In this case it doesn't seem to mean anything specific.
- " To put something into perspective is to figuratively stand back and look at that thing in terms of the bigger picture - to try to see or understand how it fits into the larger scheme of things.
- " He's not just tryng to put this one event in perspective.
- He claims that the event has prompted him to put "things", or the whole world into perspective - to meditate on what it's all about - at least the things which he's aware of, or which are important to him.
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Wowenglish“It’s humbling, and it puts things into perspective,”It's a nice "feel good" thing to say. In this case it doesn't seem to mean anything specific.
It's like saying, "Since I was personally involved in this "event," it made me stop and think about my life, and about good people and bad people and their motivations and about what's really im
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