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Peaceblinkfriend Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

"hard-to-please taskmaster" & "hard task master"

1i00He father was a01font00 hard-to-please taskmaster02font00.02i00 If I say '01i00His father was a01font00 hard task master02font02i00', does it mean the same thing? 02br
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0 No, it means 01i 01font 00someone in a position of power difficult to satisfy, a difficult-to-satisfy drill-sargeant. 02font 02i 0-

— Marius Hancu

  • 0 No, it means 01i 01font 00someone in a position of power difficult to satisfy, a difficult-to-satisfy drill-sargeant.
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0 No, it means 01i01font00someone in a position of power difficult to satisfy, a difficult-to-satisfy drill-sargeant. 02font02i0-
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0My attempt to explain it:02br
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00If someone is 01b00hard to please02b00, then scarcely can you do anything to please him.02br
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00If a man is 01b00hard to please02b00, we can call him a 01b00hard-to-please02b00 man.02br
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00And there's a possibility that "ta
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