Postage stamps of mossy grass
Hello everybody.
Would you please tell me what 'the postage stamp of mossy grass' mean?
Rowan could actually play in a garden like that, rather than the postage stamp of mossy grass we have here in our shabby Victorian semi, overlooked by several of our neighbours.
Does it mean playing on the mossy grass?
Thanks so much.
Top answer
Not "stamps", "stamp". The writer is exaggerating the smallness of the open outdoor area attached to his house, what the Brits call their garden and Americans call their yard. He compares its size to the size of a postage stamp.
- Not "stamps", "stamp".
- The writer is exaggerating the smallness of the open outdoor area attached to his house, what the Brits call their garden and Americans call their yard.
- He compares its size to the size of a postage stamp.
- It has grass growing on it—not lush grass but scraggly grass fighting for life with the mosses.
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Not "stamps", "stamp". The writer is exaggerating the smallness of the open outdoor area attached to his house, what the Brits call their garden and Americans call their yard. He compares its size to the size of a postage stamp. It has grass growing on it—not lush grass but scraggly grass fighting for life with the mosses.
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