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uyumlu
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Unlike the unnoticeable transition at MAGIC, this one had a wallop Trust Tony to cheap
can you help me to understand the sentence above?
Thanks in regards |
15 Aug 2010
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uyumlu
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and one more question :)
I tried valiantly to keep my eyes from crossing.
Is it an idiomatic expression?
I hope I �ll get an answer for these
thanks |
15 Aug 2010
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SueThom
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I �ll try to give you a little info, but hope that someone else will be able to do better, especially if you can give a little more context.
To wallop someone (verb) is to hit them hard and a wallop (noun)* is a hard hit, so I �d guess in the first one the author is saying whatever change (transition) was made had a significant impact. It was quite noticeable.
"Trust Tony to cheap" doesn �t sound like a complete sentence to me because cheap in the US is normally used as an adjective. However, if that�s the full sentence, cheap may be being used as a verb in a manner that is figurative and/or jargon in another country or a particular subculture.
When you cross your eyes, you bring both your pupils as close as you can to your nose, which causes you to see double. If you �re really sleepy or bored, your eyes may start to cross--the expression is used both figuratively and literally. Also, looking at a really intricate design, extensive or complex mathematical formulas, or something similarly detailed and confusing can be said to make your eyes cross. Consequently, it sounds like the author was struggling to pay attention or to follow a difficult train of thought or explanation, trying to understand complex information, looking at a complicated design, or something similar.
Hope that �s of some help, but am looking forward to seeing how others respond to your request.
Sue
*He walloped his son for stealing from the store. (i.e. spanked him soundly/hard)
She gave the intruder a wallop with the frying pan.
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15 Aug 2010
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uyumlu
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thanks for your help
I forgot to write for the first sentence
it �s Trust Tony to cheap out |
15 Aug 2010
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SueThom
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No problem.
"Cheap out" makes a little more sense to me, although it �s not a phrase with which I �m familiar. I did run it up in a corpus of US English (www.americancorpus.org) and there were almost a dozen entries. It looks like it means the author/speaker thinks someone didn �t do a good job of something---they didn �t put the money (or time or effort?) into doing something that should have been done better.
Oh, and I didn�t mention it in the last post, but do you understand what "Trust Tony to..." means? It�s a way of saying that a particular behavior is typical of a person. In this case it probably means that Tony usually does a halfway job (not very good; doesn�t take care of the important details; doesn�t spend the time or effort to do really good work).
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