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Pructus Posted 15 years ago
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By-and-by I was told by somebody that birds could not be caught by putting salt on their tails; that I was being made a fool of, and this was a great shock to me, since I had been taught to believe that it was wicked to tell a lie. Now for the first time I discovered that there were lies and lies, or untruths that were not lies, which one could tell innocently although they were invented and deliberately told to deceive. This angered me at first, and I wanted to know how I was to distinguish between real lies and lies that were not lies, and the only answer I got was that I could distinguish them by not being a fool!
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Hi,
In the underlined part, "which" refers to "lies and lies, or untruths that were not lies"?
"One could tell innocently"? Here, "tell" means to find out, to know OR does it mean "to say something"?
http://publicliterature.org/books/far_away_and_long_ago/book.txt
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Hi,
In the underlined part, "which" refers to "lies and lies, or untruths that were not lies"?
"One could tell innocently"? Here, "tell" means to find out, to know OR does it mean "to say something"?
Top answer
) "One could tell innocently"? -- 'Say something'.
- ) "One could tell innocently"?
- -- 'Say something'.
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In the underlined part, "which" refers to "lies and lies, or untruths that were not lies"?-- Actually, it refers to this part: 'lies, or untruths that were not lies' (i.e just the 2nd 'lie' of 'lies and lies' plus the following modifier.)
"One could tell innocently"? Here, "tell" means to find out, to know OR does it mean "to say something"?-- 'Say something'.
"One could tell innocently"? Here, "tell" means to find out, to know OR does it mean "to say something"?-- 'Say something'.
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Thanks so much, Mister Micawber....
Your answer really helped me.
I got enlightened..
By the way, an English book in Korea quoted the above passage as below, cutting out the "and the only answer I got was that I could distinguish them by not being a fool!"
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By-and-by I was told by somebody that birds could not be caught by puttin
Thanks so much, Mister Micawber....
Your answer really helped me.
I got enlightened..
By the way, an English book in Korea quoted the above passage as below, cutting out the "and the only answer I got was that I could distinguish them by not being a fool!"
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By-and-by I was told by somebody that birds could not be caught by puttin
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I'm not clear on exactly what you are asking about, but the phrase 'there are Xs and Xs' is a semi-fixed phrase. Is that of any help?
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Thanks....
The passage is quoted in a book, with the end part missing, as shown below.
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By-and-by I was told by somebody that birds could not be caught by putting salt on their tails; that I was being made a fool of, and this was a great shock to me, since I had been taught to believe that it was wicked to tell a lie. Now for the first time I discovered that th
The passage is quoted in a book, with the end part missing, as shown below.
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By-and-by I was told by somebody that birds could not be caught by putting salt on their tails; that I was being made a fool of, and this was a great shock to me, since I had been taught to believe that it was wicked to tell a lie. Now for the first time I discovered that th
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Sorry to be so long in getting back on this one. Yes, that kind of explanation is good enough. The idiom ('there are Xs and Xs'), like most idioms, is rather pithy, and the exegeses can be various, I think, without harm to the general intent.
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