Questions tagged [language-explanation]
A tag for questions asking "what did the author mean by this word/sentence"?
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Why does Victor Timely say "pumpkins" in this scene?
Loki Season 2, episode 6, the finale.
When Victor Timely has just completed the momentous task of "fixing" the Temporal Loom, he returns along the bridge/promontory to the TVA in triumph (13 ...
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Does Shohobohaum Za character allude to the USSR?
The ambassador Shohobohaum Za in The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks shows the following features.
He is a drunkard and has propensity to brawls – a known stereotype of a Russian.
He dismantles a ...
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The Coven baby blues
From the book: The Coven Elemental Magic
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"The whites of her eyes all but swallowed her baby blues"
Her baby blues is her eyes? How the whites of her eyes can swallow her baby blues?
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