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Dela Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

That did it, on the loose

One morning I was specifically not looking up when out of nowhere she swings down from a branch and practically knocks me over. Heart attack!

I dropped my backpack and wrenched my neck, and that did it. I refused to wait under that tree with that maniac monkey on the loose anymore.

1, that did it- does it mean: I wrenched my neck and it worked (the neck wasn't panic)?

2, on the loose - the monkey isn't fixed by a lope so it could jump down anytime?
  

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that did it = that was the last straw; that was the end of my patience on the loose = unbound, unrestrained

  • that did it = that was the last straw; that was the end of my patience on the loose = unbound, unrestrained
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that did it = that was the last straw; that was the end of my patience

on the loose = unbound, unrestrained
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"That did it." - "The last straw" The last event that could be tolerated.

"On the loose" - not locked-up (cage or jail).
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Thanks for the help from both of you.

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