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Paultx Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Voices carry
Is it an idiom and what does it mean?
Voices carry
Two references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Til_Tuesday's song with that as the title and this article at bookforum.com: Voices carry.
Voices carry
Two references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Til_Tuesday's song with that as the title and this article at bookforum.com: Voices carry.
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Other people can hear what you are saying/what we are saying.
- Other people can hear what you are saying/what we are saying.
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Grammar GeekOther people can hear what you are saying/what we are saying.Thanks, GG. I can understand that meaning in the song's lyrics–and that reminds me of the perhaps more popular "Walls have ears"... But I can't understand its use with that meaning in the aforementioned article...
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It's an old post, but the way I see, the second reference to "voices carry" (the article) should be taken more literaly: the article was about the storytelling tradition so we could understand the tradition was "carried" by voices (telling stories).
As for the first reference, it surely is meant as "people can hear what we're talking".
Hope I have helped.
As for the first reference, it surely is meant as "people can hear what we're talking".
Hope I have helped.
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