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[yoshi-pooh]

Hi, everyone!

I'd like to know how to use the idiom "saw logs" correctly.

A: Tom is so loud at night.
B: Yes, he saws logs.

I learned that the dialogue above doesn't sound natural becese of the use of "saw logs", but I don't remeber why.

Would anyone be able to tell me the reason and give me a good example of using "saw logs" naturally?

yoshi-pooh

[CP]

The verb is not to see, but to saw, to cut wood (or a log) with a saw.

When I sleep, I snore. It sounds like someone is cutting a log with a saw, or so I'm told.

Tom snores, too. His snoring is loud. He really saws logs at night -- or rather, it really sounds like he is sawing logs.

People also use it to mean sleeping, even if no snoring is involved. "I was sawing logs when a siren woke me up, and I couldn't get back to sleep for an hour."
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[yoshi-pooh]

Hi, CP

Thank you for your reply.

yoshi-pooh