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Verb followed by 3 prepositions: ".......looking out across through their eyes ...... | Is this a slip of tongue or something else?
Not providing an object for the preposition across is, I believe, a deliberate choice to make that preposition into an abstraction. The paragraph is attempting to capture the phenomenology of ...
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Verb followed by 3 prepositions: ".......looking out across through their eyes ...... | Is this a slip of tongue or something else?
sort of looking out across through their eyes,
There is ellipsis and meaning to consider:
Out is, most simply, categorised as an adverb -> outwards
Across hovers between and adverb and a ...
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What's *"take up"* mean in *"Nietzsche's ideas were subsequently **taken up** and re-interpreted"*
Yes, these senses. As is often the case in lists of meanings from dictionaries, some of the senses are "close" and the use of a word doesn't fall exactly in one sense or another, but in a ...
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What does "take in" mean in "There was a neighbor who was a rancher who was going to **take me in** at eleven o'clock"?
OP asked about the meaning of the phrase "take me in" from Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success (2008):
There was a neighbor who was a rancher who was going to take me in at ...
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What does "take in" mean in "There was a neighbor who was a rancher who was going to **take me in** at eleven o'clock"?
There is an important clue in your excerpt: at 11 a.m. (appointment)
There is another important clue in your excerpt: neighbor (close)
There is still another important clue in your excerpt: "...
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What does "take in" mean in "There was a neighbor who was a rancher who was going to **take me in** at eleven o'clock"?
Here, take in doesn’t look like a phrasal verb—as it would be, for instance, if one were talking about reducing some measurement of a garment: My blazer fits me perfectly now that the tailor has taken ...
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What does "take in" mean in "There was a neighbor who was a rancher who was going to **take me in** at eleven o'clock"?
It seems to mean "drive me in (from where I live[d] to campus)". But the past tense is odd in context. Have you given the full context? Or is that man telling someone about the story he ...
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Can we know for certain that "go on" only means "continue" in "The graduation ceremony will go on, regardless of weather."?
This seems to be an extension of the idiom "The show must go on", a saying in the theatre that the show must be performed, no matter what happens before or during. The show must both begin (...
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'visit someone' vs. 'visit with someone'
Transitive visit with direct object:
We're going to visit grandma for the holiday.
refers to the act of going to grandma's house to be with her for a while, a day, or a few days, or possibly longer, ...
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Does "put on to" mean the same thing as the phrasal verb "put onto" here?
I. Dictionary Meanings of "Put Onto" and "Put on To":
According to the Collins Dictionary, "put onto" can also be written as "put on to" in certain contexts:
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Does "put on to" mean the same thing as the phrasal verb "put onto" here?
As @Michael_Harvey says, this is not a case of the phrasal verb put onto. Instead, this is a tricky use of the preposition 'on to'. I can't find an OED sense that covers this exactly (though c.f on. ...
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Does "bustle about" mean the same thing as "fluster about"?
'Fluster about' suggests manic, worried activity - someone being worried at the author and doing a lot of things that don't necessarily help. In the Fallout quote, people are 'flustering about' a ...
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Does "bustle about" mean the same thing as "fluster about"?
Fluster about is not a standard usage. The dictionary meaning of fluster is 'to put someone in a state of nervous confusion' - to cause them to feel 'flustered'. It's not normally an intransitive verb....
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Can I use "we're on the way" to talk about "we're here to tell you something"?
we're on the way to talk
we're coming to tell you and offer you something
Here you are informing the other party about your current whereabouts and the things you will be discussing when you reach ...
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