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Newguest Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Run a bath

Hi

One guys says that in the past he was very fat and "couldn't run a bath and was always last at cross-country".

Does "run a bath" just mean that he was so fat that he couldn't fill up a bathtub with water Emotion: thinking Or maybe he was so fat that he couldn't wash himself?
  

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Yes, it means he couldn't fill a bathtub with water. Maybe he was so obese that he had difficulty bending over and reaching for the tap?

— Pronunciationkaren

  • Yes, it means he couldn't fill a bathtub with water.
  • Maybe he was so obese that he had difficulty bending over and reaching for the tap?
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Yes, it means he couldn't fill a bathtub with water. Maybe he was so obese that he had difficulty bending over and reaching for the tap?
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NewguestDoes "run a bath" just mean that he was so fat that he couldn't fill up a bathtub with water Or maybe he was so fat that he couldn't wash himself?
It's not meant literally but as a little joke. "He couldn't run ..." makes us think of running in the normal sense, which is quite a strenuous exercise, but then the speaker surprises us by turning it into "
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My phys-ed teacher in Canada used to use the comment, "If you don't watch out, you'll be too big to run an errand."
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