English Language Learners Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for speakers of other languages learning English. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
What does "shouting scorn" mean in:
86 years before Boris Yeltsin stood on a tank in Moscow in 1991, shouting scorn for a coup attempt, Russians marched to the Winter Palace to present petitions to the Tsar.
What I understand is something like this:
Russians marched to the Winter Palace to give petitions to the Tsar. 86 years after that, in 1991; Boris Yeltsin shouted "I feel contempt for any attempt to change the government" while he was standing on a tank.
You've got it about right. There's no meaning other than the dictionary definition for the two words (ie, 'shouting scorn' is not a phrase/cliche in its own right).
Mr Yeltsin is scornful about the coup attempt, and he is shouting to let everyone know of his scorn.
I would add "by coup" to your sentence of what Mr Yeltsin is shouting. A change of government by ordinary means probably wouldn't make him scornful.
"To shout scorn" is to shout "scornful" words.
There is an expression in British English (maybe others) which is to "pour scorn" on something. President Yeltsin could have poured scorn on the coup attempt.
