Skirt, blubber
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1) "She skirted the roundabout." Does 'skirt' mean the same as 'go along'?
2) "My feet were like a slab of blubber after swimming in the cold water." What does 'slab of blubber' mean? I know that 'slab' is a flat piece of material, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to convey in connection with 'blubber',
Thank you. 
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) Here it means 'go around '. 2) blubbe r doe not make sense here. " Clive
- ) Here it means 'go around '.
- 2) blubbe r doe not make sense here.
- " Clive
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) Here it means 'go around'.
2) blubber doe not make sense here. Say "My feet were like slabs of ice after swimming in the cold water."
Clive
0The phrase "slab of blubber" is from the 19th century whaling days, where the whale's thick layer of insulating blubber under the skin would be cut into slabs and the fat rendered by boiling, giving oil that was used for many things. Thus "slab of blubber" is associated with warmth, not cold. "My feet were like a slab of blubber" means my feet were warm.
0Ann2251) "She skirted the roundabout." Does 'skirt' mean the same as 'go along'?
"Skirt" is probably a wrong word there. If she skirted the roundabout, she went around the outside of it beyond its confines, which seems unlikely and would require a better description than the one word provides.
Ann2252) "My feet were like a slab o
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