what is another meaning for "scar" other than the standard one. Used in the book Lord of the Flies pg.4
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Cliff or steep rock face, on the coast or inland
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You're lucky I love this book and it's sitting next to me...\n\nAtticus: "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you see things from his point of view--"\nScout: "Sir?"\nAtticus: "--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."\n\n\nThe two answerers above me- did you ever consider this is a high school student that can't figure it out?  Perhaps they are being lazy or perhaps they just don't know which quote is correct.  Don't answer the question if you're just going to be a jerk.
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I am guessing that it is a phrasal verb- please cut using it (like cut it out=stop it-> stop using it ).\n\nOr literally: Cut it when/before being used.\n\nThat's till where my imagination can work.\nHope it helps.
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The "stick sharpened at both ends" is a reference to what they did with the Lord of the Flies, impaling one end in the head and the other in the ground. This shows the brutality of what they planned to do to Ralph, who indeed felt like a pig being hunted by the savages. The fire set on the entire island shows the tribe's complete lack of foresight, as if they were not rescued, they would have no food or shelter. Ironically, the fire meant for evil started by Jack turned out to be what got the boys saved. The arrival of the Naval officer thus seems like a happy and ironic ending, but if one digs deeper it is just a continuation from one war to another. Once all the boys get on the Navy cruiser, they'll most likely just be subjected to more battle and fighting, this time on a worldwide level, due to the war taking place in the outside world.
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Where did you get that from? They both mean the same thing.\n\n"As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured". Meaning that because he has hurt other so he needs to get hurt. Karma.\n\n"If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."\nMeaning the same thing. If someone hurts you, the other needs to get hurt. Karma.\n\nDon't take it too literally. I don't even know where you got that from.
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Could also refer to language that has a special meaning in the passage or story.  For example in Robert Frost's poem Mending Wall, he says, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" - simple words, but very meaningful in that poem.  Similarly, the title of Frost's poem Out, Out is very simple, but highly meaningful when you know the words come from Lady MacBeth's speech with the words "Out, d****d spot ...."\n\nI would suggest looking for words that are particularly meaningful in the story.
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Probably a local word for termites or some other wood burrowing insect.  \nThe only other meaning was mentioned by the previous answer, and that is an Austailian term, Sawbees, Brand of hand-shears used for shearing sheep
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I think it comes from medevil times when they believed that if you actually went and got some of the hair of the dog that had bitten you it would heal faster or something. I know it is something along those lines. Actually here this is from wikipedia:\n\n"The origin of the phrase is unclear, but instances of the phrase have appeared in English literature since the time of Shakespeare. E. Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences."
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I suppose he could have been refering to this verse:\n\nRevelation 19:16 - And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.\n\nIt says written. I don't think that it means ink inside the skin but a topical written statement. It may be more spiritual than physical. I would ask the pastor to show you where in scripture that he bases that statement. \n\nIf God said not to mark your skin, Jesus surely would obey. He came to fulfill the law.\n\nLev 19:28  Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
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I think it means something like "Lead wings quickly turn into ashes!"\n\nDoes it now make any sense to you?
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There's no "meaning" as such.  It represents a sword--in the original Tarot deck the suits were wands (clubs), cups (hearts), pentacles (diamonds) and swords (spades).\n\nWhen playing cards were simplified and had their "occult" symbolism stripped away, we were left with the modern day suits.
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The word holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering" to a god. Since the late 19th century, "holocaust" has primarily been used to refer to disasters or catastrophes. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was first used to describe Hitler's treatment of the Jews from as early as 1942, though it did not become a standard reference until the 1950s. By the late 1970s, however, the conventional meaning of the word became the Nazi genocide. The term is also used by many in a narrower sense, to refer specifically to the unprecedented destruction of European Jews in particular. Some historians credit Elie Wiesel with giving the term 'Holocaust' its present meaning.\n\nwant to know more.. check it out..
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Circumcized, no foreskin--cut\nNot circumcized, foreskin as nature gave you--uncut
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It's a mixed metaphor, a mixture of what appears to be your American version of 'to throw a spanner in the works' and 'a fly in the ointment'.\n\nI guess it's supposed to mean buggering things up just to be a pain.
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The skinny meaning the truth comes from ancient Rome,the word skinnes: where you were skinned if you did not give up the enemy's secrets. They believed peeling the skin off would reveal the truth. usually it did because it hurt pretty bad.
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It'd might be of help if you were a little more specific in your question.\n\nTo 'cut off' is to interrupt or sever. Such as phone calls, or limbs and the like.\n\nTo cut is to simply inflict damage in a sort of slash-like motion.\n\nThe definition really is based on context, but usually to cut off is to definitely sever, when cutting, doesn't always imply loss.
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my class just finished reading the Glass Menagerie. you mean the scarecrow is like a metaphor? I don't understand what you mean though about how the scarecrow does his job instead of standing in the bright sun...isn't the scarecrow always in the bright sun while it's doing its job?? Update your question to let me know...I'll check back and write back to you on it.