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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject: get the better of |
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1.He always gets the better of his opponents.
2.The important thing is not to let your emotions get the better of you. |
While I've got the meaning of 'get the better of', which is 'to beat', from my dictionary, I'm still wondering what #2 is meaning.
What does #2 mean? And also I'd like to know what word can be changed instead of 'get the better of' in the sentence of #2.
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Lorikeet
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: Re: get the better of |
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| Chan-Seung Lee wrote: |
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1.He always gets the better of his opponents.
2.The important thing is not to let your emotions get the better of you. |
While I've got the meaning of 'get the better of', which is 'to beat', from my dictionary, I'm still wondering what #2 is meaning.
What does #2 mean? And also I'd like to know what word can be changed instead of 'get the better of' in the sentence of #2.
Thanks. |
It means you have to control your emotions and not let them take over and make you do something you will be sorry about later.
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eddfx
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Don�t let your emotions control you.
Example:
I was so angry, I threw my cell phone and it broke. My emotions got the better of me.
You can think of it as your emotions �beating you� in this sense. |
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