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Warrener Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

strike somebody as ripe ?

0A sentence: The device struck mod makers as ripe for the hacking.02br
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00Can anybody analyze the grammar structure of this sentence? I wonder the usage of "as... for" in this sentence...02br
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0 This is a play on the old phrase, "ripe for the picking", which literally refers to when fruit is ripe enough to be picked from the tree or plant it grew from. So, just as ripe fruit is ready to picked, this device is ready to be hacked. 0-

— YoungCalifornian

  • 0 This is a play on the old phrase, "ripe for the picking", which literally refers to when fruit is ripe enough to be picked from the tree or plant it grew from.
  • So, just as ripe fruit is ready to picked, this device is ready to be hacked.
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0 This is a play on the old phrase, "ripe for the picking", which literally refers to when fruit is ripe enough to be picked from the tree or plant it grew from. So, just as ripe fruit is ready to picked, this device is ready to be hacked. 0-
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