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Maple Posted 18 years ago
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reel at the scale of trading scandal

France continued to reel at the scale of the trading scandal at Société Générale, the country's second biggest bank.

What do reel and scale mean? And could you please paraphrase the sentence?

Thanks in advance!
  

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Without looking it up, "reel" evokes the physical image of being knocked back or blown back, and rolling or doing involuntary cartwheels. We have similar expressions like, "We were knocked off our feet," or "bowled over," or "We were blown away by the news," which are not meant to be taken literally. scale=size/dimension/magnitude The country is still feeling the aftershocks from the trading scandal as the damage continues to rise.

— Avangi

  • Without looking it up, "reel" evokes the physical image of being knocked back or blown back, and rolling or doing involuntary cartwheels.
  • We have similar expressions like, "We were knocked off our feet," or "bowled over," or "We were blown away by the news," which are not meant to be taken literally.
  • scale=size/dimension/magnitude The country is still feeling the aftershocks from the trading scandal as the damage continues to rise.
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Without looking it up, "reel" evokes the physical image of being knocked back or blown back, and rolling or doing involuntary cartwheels. We have similar expressions like, "We were knocked off our feet," or "bowled over," or "We were blown away by the news," which are not meant to be taken literally.

scale=size/dimension/magnitude

The country is still feeling the aftersho
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Thank you very much Avangi!
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