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JCDenton Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

Please guys, help me with this situation...

Hi guys,

Can you please help me with understanding of this situation? Context: FBI agents tries to arrest an man, who has been identified as an robber, who committed an bank robbery 1 year before..But there is a problem with that warrant...

Agent A: We can't arrest him.

Agent B: Why not? We've got a positive I.D. from Stoker.

Agent A: No, no, Stoker presented it as hypothetical.

Agent B: So what? Let's just cut a deal.

Agent A: Yeah, we're trying, it's just complicated.

Agent B: Look, I am hanging on to this guy by a thread.

Agent A: Yeah, and once he figures that out, he's gonna want to leave.

Agent B: So why don't you let him go, we can follow him.


Guys please, maybe I'm stupid, but I'm kind of confused with that red sentence...Please did he say:

1) All I can do with that guy is threating him...?

2) Was it meaned as metaphore? Something like: "I'm holding this guy here via very thin thread? (metaphorically)" In the other words, I don't have a lot of resources or proves, which would hold him here?

Please what do you think?

many thanks in advance for your help

Best Regards
  

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Please did he say: 1) All I can do with that guy is threating him...? 2) Was it meaned as metaphore? Something like: "I'm holding this guy here via very thin thread?

  • Please did he say: 1) All I can do with that guy is threating him...?
  • 2) Was it meaned as metaphore?
  • Something like: "I'm holding this guy here via very thin thread?
  • (metaphorically)" In the other words, I don't have a lot of resources or proves, which would hold him here?
  • #2 is the general idea.
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Hi,

...Please did he say:

1) All I can do with that guy is threating him...?

2) Was it meaned as metaphore? Something like: "I'm holding this guy here via very thin thread? (metaphorically)" In the other words, I don't have a lot of resources or proves, which would hold him here?

#2 is the general idea. I don't have a lot of reasons to keep him under a

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