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fw
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 Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject: nothing worse than |
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Hello everyone.
What does the underlined part below mean and how do you paraphrase it? Does the author think the flat tire was not so serious a matter compared with what happened then?
Just a few hours after he escaped with nothing worse than a flat tire from a roadside bomb that hit his fuel truck, Barnes said: "Every time you go out, you go out knowing that you might not come back."
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awgroff
Joined: 28 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| The statement means that he could have come out of the situation a lot worse than he did, but instead only got a flat tire. So he did not have anything happen that was worse than getting a flat tire. |
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