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Ashahrabif Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Shout someone back to life?

And the more "the calamity of the Jewish people in this generation" unfolded and the more grandiose Mr. Hausner's rhetoric became, the paler and more ghostlike became the figure in the glass booth, and no finger-wagging: "And there sits the monster responsible for all this," could shout him back to life.

Does "shout someone back to life" have a special meaning?
  

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ashahrabif and no finger-wagging: "And there sits the monster responsible for all this," could shout him back to life. Does "shout someone back to life" have a special meaning? It isn't really a special meaning, but I believe it is meant to be metaphoric, because according to the text it doesn't seem that anyone is actually dead.

— CalifJim

  • ashahrabif and no finger-wagging: "And there sits the monster responsible for all this," could shout him back to life.
  • Does "shout someone back to life" have a special meaning?
  • It isn't really a special meaning, but I believe it is meant to be metaphoric, because according to the text it doesn't seem that anyone is actually dead.
  • I'd interpret it like this: Nothing said to him (not even saying "And there sits the monster responsible for all this" in the loudest, most accusatory voice) would have been able to shake him into an awareness of the seriousness of what was being said.
  • The literal meaning of "shout someone back to life" is to shout so loud that it would cause a dead person to become alive again.
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ashahrabif and no finger-wagging: "And there sits the monster responsible for all this," could shout him back to life. Does "shout someone back to life" have a special meaning?
It isn't really a special meaning, but I believe it is meant to be metaphoric, because according to the text it doesn't seem that anyone is actually dead. I'd interpret it like this:
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