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Meowth Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Was broke to the world
please, could somebody explain me what the following means:
... D'you remember my telling you about that chap I met in Brittany? I saw
him the other day here. He's just off to Tahiti. He was broke to the
world. He was a brasseur d'affaires, a stockbroker I suppose you call it
in English ....
And why it is "broke", not "broken", that is correct participle II form?. What tense form it is?
Thanks in advance.
... D'you remember my telling you about that chap I met in Brittany? I saw
him the other day here. He's just off to Tahiti. He was broke to the
world. He was a brasseur d'affaires, a stockbroker I suppose you call it
in English ....
And why it is "broke", not "broken", that is correct participle II form?. What tense form it is?
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
e had no money at all). 'Broke' is an adjective meaning 'penniless'.
- e had no money at all).
- 'Broke' is an adjective meaning 'penniless'.
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I think it is Somerset Maugham's character's way of saying that he was very broke (i.e had no money at all). 'Broke' is an adjective meaning 'penniless'.
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Thank you =)
now I see...
when I looked it up in a dictionary first time I didn't find this adjective, now I see it was there, It is just that I missed it
now I see...
when I looked it up in a dictionary first time I didn't find this adjective, now I see it was there, It is just that I missed it
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