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Newguest Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Pull the plug
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A little girl wanted to remove a film from a cine-camera. She went to the bathroom.
She had never handled one before, so what she had to do took a little time. And she pulled the plug twice,
just to make quite certain. She had no qualms over what she was doing.
What "plug" was she pulling twice? When I see the phrase "pull the plug" I imagine there's a socket and someone pulls out the plug of the socket just to disconnect something, for example a refrigerator.
A little girl wanted to remove a film from a cine-camera. She went to the bathroom.
She had never handled one before, so what she had to do took a little time. And she pulled the plug twice,
just to make quite certain. She had no qualms over what she was doing.
What "plug" was she pulling twice? When I see the phrase "pull the plug" I imagine there's a socket and someone pulls out the plug of the socket just to disconnect something, for example a refrigerator.
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I understand now. She flushed the film
- I understand now.
- She flushed the film
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When and where did this story take place?
I am not aware of the idiom "pull the plug" in modern American English.
(I fully agree that 'flush' is the meaning, however.)
CJ
I am not aware of the idiom "pull the plug" in modern American English.
(I fully agree that 'flush' is the meaning, however.)
CJ
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