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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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I felt that way not because I never once discovered any palpable hard young throat to crush among the masculine mutes that flickered somewhere in the background; but because it was to me “overwhelmingly obvious” (a favorite expression with my aunt Sybil) that all varieties of high school boys—from the perspiring nincompoop whom “holding hands” thrills, to the self-sufficient rapist with pustules and a souped-up car—equally bored my sophisticated young mistress.
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Which words do you not understand? The only idiom I see is 'souped-up', which means super-charged or otherwise modified to be more powerful or fast.
- Which words do you not understand?
- The only idiom I see is 'souped-up', which means super-charged or otherwise modified to be more powerful or fast.
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Which words do you not understand? The only idiom I see is 'souped-up', which means super-charged or otherwise modified to be more powerful or fast.
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from the perspiring nincompoop whom “holding hands” thrills = a stupid person who finds holding hands exciting and who sweats (perhaps because of being excited or nervous)
self-sufficient rapist with pustules and a souped-up car = an (egoistic/self-sufficient) person who needs no-one else but has a souped-up (revved-up) car
It appears to me that the author t
self-sufficient rapist with pustules and a souped-up car = an (egoistic/self-sufficient) person who needs no-one else but has a souped-up (revved-up) car
It appears to me that the author t
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