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[missdaredevil]

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1Sickness has become a* relative term* for me.
?
2.He's nice enought guy to grant her that wish.

Would anyone use the same structure in another sentence?

3. Would you get a *load* at him?
take a look and listen to?

4. "polar opposite"=completely opposite?

5. I brought along an old friend.= I brought an old friend along with me?

6. She is from old southern "money"??
I thought it meant "rich people".

[CP]

Sorry to ask moer questions. Thanks again for everything.
Don't be sorry. That's what the forum is for!

1. When something is "a relative term," it means that the meaning changes depending on the situation. Maybe the person who said, "Sickness has become a relative term for me" had a close friend who was struck with some terrible disease. Now, the flu doesn't seem so bad. Something like that.

2. He was nice enough to help his neighbor. She was thoughtful enough to bring her co-workers pastries for the staff meeting.


3. The expression is, "Get a load of X," or "Would you get a load of X?". It means, "Look at X," or "Would you look at X?". You can also "get an eyeful."

4. Yes. The North Pole is 180 degrees away from the South Pole, on the opposite side of Earth. So polar opposites are completely opposite one another.

5. Yes.

6. "Old money" means the family has had money for a long time, whereas "new money" (or nouveau riche from the French) means the family was poor (or at least not rich) until recently. Old Southern money means the family got rich in the South, possibly because of slave labor.
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