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Frank.q Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

What's the alliteration for "under the car"?

Marie: Hi, Ray. How are you, honey? -You're hungry?

Ray: No.

Frank: Marie, I got to get my thoughts down on tapioca. Like it or lump it.

Marie: That's enough for today. I'm gonna go lie down under the car.

Frank: Hey, Ray! What's up?

Ray: Nothing. I talked to my editor today.



Above is the dialoge in one episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, Marie use the alliteration "under the car",

My question is what the alliteration for, is that for " on the couch"?

Thanks for your help.
  

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Alliteration : use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. I suppose you mean allusion . Under the car is not an allusion to somewhere else; perhaps it is a humorous choice for a place to go and be alone -- or perhaps she has been doing some car repairs and is not finished yet.

— Mister Micawber

  • Alliteration : use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.
  • I suppose you mean allusion .
  • Under the car is not an allusion to somewhere else; perhaps it is a humorous choice for a place to go and be alone -- or perhaps she has been doing some car repairs and is not finished yet.
  • As a third possibility, it could be an allusion (= a reference) to an earlier comment about the car.
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Alliteration: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. I suppose you mean allusion.

Under the car is not an allusion to somewhere else; perhaps it is a humorous choice for a place to go and be alone -- or perhaps she has been doing some car repairs and is not finished yet. As a third possibility, it could be a
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Mister MicawberAlliteration: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. I suppose you mean allusion.

Under the car is not an allusion to somewhere else; perhaps it is a humorous choice for a place to go and be alone -- or perhaps she has been doing some car repairs and is not finished yet
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No, rhyme is where two words have a similar/the same sound at the end. For example, car and bar rhyme. Cat and hat rhyme. Scooter and hooter rhyme.

I don't think 'under the car' is anything in particular - there isn't a word to describe this little phrase, it's not an idiom or anything. It's just three words. She is just saying she is going to go and lie under the car. I think she is just
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Nona The Brit
No, rhyme is where two words have a similar/the same sound at the end. For example, car and bar rhyme. Cat and hat rhyme. Scooter and hooter rhyme.

I don't think 'under the car' is anything in particular - there isn't a word to describe this little phrase, it's not an idiom or anything. It's just three words. She is just saying she is going to g
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Hmm...perhaps she's saying that she is going to kill herself after all the bad news she's received?
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That's my take on it. Somehting like she's saying, in a joking manner, that he's "killing" her with his obsession over writing, so she may as well lay down under the car so he can run over her and finish the job. It's just a joke. (There's another expression - just shoot me now - that means "get it over with - you're killing me." Not literally, but making me crazy.)
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Perhaps she's big fan of car repairing / mechanics, or perhaps that's the/her standard place of hiding/refuge in case of family conflicts
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Grammar GeekThat's my take on it. Somehting like she's saying, in a joking manner, that he's "killing" her with his obsession over writing, so she may as well lay down under the car so he can run over her and finish the job. It's just a joke. (There's another expression - just shoot me now - that means "get it over with - you're killing me." Not literally, but maki
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