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Future332 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Thanksgiving day

Could you please explain the following sentence in the context of Thanksgiving?
It's a bad time to be a turkey.
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In America the traditional meal at Thanksgiving is turkey. To be a turkey at Thanksgiving is a bad thing - you are likely to get eaten! Similarly, 'like turkeys voting for Christmas' is used in some countries to express a silly idea that people would not carry through for for fear of losing out.

— David Hatton

  • In America the traditional meal at Thanksgiving is turkey.
  • To be a turkey at Thanksgiving is a bad thing - you are likely to get eaten!
  • Similarly, 'like turkeys voting for Christmas' is used in some countries to express a silly idea that people would not carry through for for fear of losing out.
  • If a turkey 'voted for Christmas' then it would effectively be saying 'I want to encourage people to kill and eat me' as that's what happens in some countries at Christmas.
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In America the traditional meal at Thanksgiving is turkey. To be a turkey at Thanksgiving is a bad thing - you are likely to get eaten!
Similarly, 'like turkeys voting for Christmas' is used in some countries to express a silly idea that people would not carry through for for fear of losing out. If a turkey 'voted for Christmas' then it would effectively be saying 'I want to encourage people
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future332It's a bad time to be a turkey.
That is the time we kill and eat turkey for a big feast. Turkey is the traditional centerpiece on the Thanksgiving table of a big family gathering. Would you want to be a turkey?

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