Timeline for rarely far from discussions
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| Dec 8, 2015 at 11:23 | history | edited | Schwale | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jul 11, 2015 at 7:04 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
If you are quoting and asking about discussions, plural, then make sure you quote the word as plural
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| Jul 10, 2015 at 22:02 | answer | added | DCShannon | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 21, 2015 at 14:25 | comment | added | TimR | As to its meaning here "never explicitly raised but an undercurrent or subtext"--that is certainly a possibility. That's what "never far from the surface" would mean. But "she was never far from his thoughts" means "he thought of her often". | |
| May 21, 2015 at 14:19 | comment | added | TimR | I had in mind the idioms: never far from the surface and never far from the minds and never far from the thoughts. | |
| May 21, 2015 at 13:52 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @TRomano: Maybe it's just me, but I'd be inclined to think that if I'm told X is rarely far from discussions, that doesn't necessarily mean the matter of X is explicitly raised in discussions. Thus, Incest is rarely far from discussions about domestic abuse might well be taken to imply that many/all of the people involved in such discussions are intensely aware of the relevance of incest to their discussions, even if in fact no-one ever explicitly mentions it. (It's the "elephant in the room".) | |
| May 21, 2015 at 13:45 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It's a somewhat unusual usage - Google Books records only the cited instance and one other, and even on the entire Internet there are only half-a-dozen instances of rarely far from discussions. And including the discussion(s) finds even less hits. But I suppose it counts as an "idiom" - modeled on the far more common [His ideas were] rarely far from the truth. | |
| May 21, 2015 at 13:10 | history | edited | bart-leby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 21, 2015 at 13:01 | comment | added | TimR | It means the topic of toys often arose in discussions of development. The subject of toys was rarely ignored in discussions of educational play. (But I think the idiom likes to have an article: "far from the discussion".) | |
| May 21, 2015 at 12:25 | history | asked | bart-leby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |