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Matthew.90 Posted 14 years ago
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Please write it another way
''you just get them broke in good, and you have to start all over with a new one, right?''
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'' This is a somewhat substandard way of saying, You just get them broken in well and you have to start all over with new ones, right? What are "them"? Are you going to tell us?
- '' This is a somewhat substandard way of saying, You just get them broken in well and you have to start all over with new ones, right?
- What are "them"?
- Are you going to tell us?
- Or are you going to make us guess?
- It might be about shoes.
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Matthew.90''you just get them broke in good, and you have to start all over with a new one, right?''This is a somewhat substandard way of saying,
You just get them broken in well and you have to start all over with new ones, right?
What are "them"? Are you going to tell us? Or are you going to make us guess?
It might be about shoe
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Reporters?
So then the sentence means
Just when you get a reporter to understand his job, get him or her accustomed to the way things are supposed to be done, then they leave and another reporter takes his place, so all that work seems to have been wasted.
Make sense?
So then the sentence means
Just when you get a reporter to understand his job, get him or her accustomed to the way things are supposed to be done, then they leave and another reporter takes his place, so all that work seems to have been wasted.
Make sense?
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Could you write it with another verb?
"Get them broke in good" doenst mean to me. I dont get it.
"Get them broke in good" doenst mean to me. I dont get it.
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Matthew.90with another verbget them broken in ~ get them trained
CJ
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"Get them broke in good" doesn't mean anything to me. I don't get it.
The expression comes from the American west.
Cowboys would break a wild horse - taming the animal so they could ride it. It means to to teach the horse to accept a saddle and bridle, and not to buck (jump around so the rider falls off).
When cowboys get brand new boots, the
The expression comes from the American west.
Cowboys would break a wild horse - taming the animal so they could ride it. It means to to teach the horse to accept a saddle and bridle, and not to buck (jump around so the rider falls off).
When cowboys get brand new boots, the
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