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Vocabulary
using Extorting to replace Racking
Hi. Is it correct to use "extorting great ideas" as opposed to "racking out great ideas" or anything similar? I haven't seen this in any literature before but it was justified in a friendly discussion by the following:
extorting means gaining something by force
thus in context of extorting great ideas it means trying to force idea out of oneself
There's collocations, am I right? In which yellow is not wrong to describe the colour of someone's hair, but we use blonde instead.
I thank you in advance
extorting means gaining something by force
thus in context of extorting great ideas it means trying to force idea out of oneself
There's collocations, am I right? In which yellow is not wrong to describe the colour of someone's hair, but we use blonde instead.
I thank you in advance
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Even 'racking out great ideas' is not idiomatic to me: it is ' racking one's brain for (great ideas)'. 'Extorting' does not seem appropriate there, really, even as a creative metaphor, since extortion is the demand for money to avoid the revelation of something. In any case, they don't collocate highly because only one or two people have used it so far.
- Even 'racking out great ideas' is not idiomatic to me: it is ' racking one's brain for (great ideas)'.
- 'Extorting' does not seem appropriate there, really, even as a creative metaphor, since extortion is the demand for money to avoid the revelation of something.
- In any case, they don't collocate highly because only one or two people have used it so far.
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Even 'racking out great ideas' is not idiomatic to me: it is 'racking one's brain for (great ideas)'. 'Extorting' does not seem appropriate there, really, even as a creative metaphor, since extortion is the demand for money to avoid the revelation of something. In any case, they don't collocate highly because only one or two people have used it so far.
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