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imchongjun
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 Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:53 am Post subject: what does this mean? |
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Hello, teachers.
I came across the following passage in a novel written in 1919, and am curious to know what the last sentence means. "Open up my little house in Forest Hill" sounds like an idiomatic expression, but I could not find it in any dictionary. What does it mean?
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"Come," he exclaimed, "I am weary of solitude! I have seen scarcely a face that I recognise. My tongue is parched with inaction. I like to talk, and there has been no one to talk to. I might as well have opened up my little house in Forest Hill." |
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Yinglish
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: Re: what does this mean? |
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| imchongjun wrote: |
| ... I might as well have opened up my little house in Forest Hill." |
Like you said, it sounds idiomatic. Forest Hill sounds like a place with few visitors. Even if the owner "opened up" or invited guests to his house, nobody would come. In other words, the owner is very lonely and wants to find someone to talk to. |
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