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'the user who wants to `dock' a portable into a desktop setup and use its drives and printers in a sort of client/server networking fashion.' These 'portable' and 'desktop' mean 'portable computer' and 'desktop computer'? Does this person want to connect a portable computer WITH a desktop computer? ...

'money paid in discharge of a claim'
I wonder what this 'claim' means.
'Request for payment'?

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"The idea was politically explosive."
I wonder what 'politically explosive' means.

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We have a term something like 'buyer-attracting panda'
in Japanese. It refers to anything designed to attract
people to sell something.
Is there any similar term in English?

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"Not every gleam in a grocer's eye becomes a store."
Is this a proverb? I wonder what it means.

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"He kept half an eye on the house as he worked."
I wonder what this means. Is he a carpenter?
He is not working seriously?

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"I gave them the full treatment, and they were just falling over themselves."
I wonder what was happening to them in the last part.
Were they in a state of panic (confused) or were they doing their best?

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'the chef who owns his restaurant'
Is it called the 'owner chef'?
Does the 'managing chef' work to
mean the same thing?

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Thank you very much, blackmagic.
So is it nearly the same as:
"The (growth of) banks are dependent
on their customers' growth"?

"Banks have a vested interest in the growth
of their customers."
This is very difficult for me.
"Banks are indispensable for the customers'
growth"?

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Thank you, emile.

"He could only be dealt with on his own terms."
I wonder what this means.
"If you were to deal with him successfully,
you ought to follow his own ideas"?

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