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Jigneshbharati Posted 7 years ago
Grammar
Silly out of
I am reading a book "Tricky Nelly's Birthday Treat" with my son who is in year 2.
"They couldn't help playing tricks on each other. It was in their bones, you see. Nelly loved to make a silly out of Billy and Billy loved to make a noodle out of Nelly."
What do the following phrases mean here:
In their bones
a silly out of Billy
make a noodle out of Nelly
"They couldn't help playing tricks on each other. It was in their bones, you see. Nelly loved to make a silly out of Billy and Billy loved to make a noodle out of Nelly."
What do the following phrases mean here:
In their bones
a silly out of Billy
make a noodle out of Nelly
Why can't I find them in dictionaries?
Why do we need "a" before "a silly.." and "noodle out of.."?
Top answer
Jigneshbharati Why can't I find them in dictionaries? g. com/en/definition/in_one's_bones "make a ~ (out) of someone" is a set pattern, and dictionaries won't list every possible combination separately.
- Jigneshbharati Why can't I find them in dictionaries?
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- com/en/definition/in_one's_bones "make a ~ (out) of someone" is a set pattern, and dictionaries won't list every possible combination separately.
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- "noodle" and "silly" are countable nouns.
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JigneshbharatiWhy can't I find them in dictionaries?
You need to look up "in their bones" in the form that dictionaries will (probably) use, which is "in one's bones"; see e.g. https://www.lexico.com/en/definit
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