Within four walls
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I need your help again.
I am trying to phrase a question which will emphasize that when people live indoors without connection with the natural environment, their condition changes for the worse. Is it correct as it is written below? I am not sure about the underlined part.
"Have you ever noticed their condition after they have been closed within four walls?"
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Hi I think I'd use the word 'stuck' there: - Surely you must see, it cannot be good for a person to be forever stuck inside these four walls? There's an interesting contrast with a similar phrase that has the opposite meaning: - This is a safe place: whatever you say within these four walls stays within these four walls. I just mention that second one as, in terms of people's well-being, it's also an idiom in common use Best regards, Dave
- Hi I think I'd use the word 'stuck' there: - Surely you must see, it cannot be good for a person to be forever stuck inside these four walls?
- There's an interesting contrast with a similar phrase that has the opposite meaning: - This is a safe place: whatever you say within these four walls stays within these four walls.
- I just mention that second one as, in terms of people's well-being, it's also an idiom in common use Best regards, Dave
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Hi
I think I'd use the word 'stuck' there:
- Surely you must see, it cannot be good for a person to be forever stuck inside these four walls?
There's an interesting contrast with a similar phrase that has the opposite meaning:
- This is a safe place: whatever you say within these four walls stays within these four walls.
I just mention that second one as, in terms
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