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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
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Wander through the rubble...
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The zoo in Berlin was bombed during the war and there's a story that when people got up the next day to wander through the rubble of their lives, there were giraffes and lions and elephants roaming around.
--- I don't get the part "wander through the rubble of their lives"?
The zoo in Berlin was bombed during the war and there's a story that when people got up the next day to wander through the rubble of their lives, there were giraffes and lions and elephants roaming around.
--- I don't get the part "wander through the rubble of their lives"?
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Newguest I don't get the part "wander through the rubble of their lives"? It's only moderately metaphoric. I assume you know the meanings of the individual words.
- Newguest I don't get the part "wander through the rubble of their lives"?
- It's only moderately metaphoric.
- I assume you know the meanings of the individual words.
- The city was bombed.
- Much of it was destroyed -- reduced to rubble.
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NewguestI don't get the part "wander through the rubble of their lives"?It's only moderately metaphoric. I assume you know the meanings of the individual words.
The city was bombed. Much of it was destroyed -- reduced to rubble. If your home were completely destroyed by a bomb, where could you go? You might just wander around, stunned, wondering w
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