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Nov 27, 2017 · Nov 27, 2017. #2. “If you need convincing, just look at the YouTube comments or Twitter replies when a woman dares to voice a political opinion or even just share an anecdote from her own lived experience,” she writes. “People hiding in the shadows step forward just far enough to rip her apart.”. Hillary Clinton: there's a 'game that ...
Dec 12, 2008 · Detroit, Michigan. English - United States. Dec 12, 2008. #8. In AE, a shadow is a murky, dark reflection of the real thing. If she only throws shadows at you, whatever she's giving you is not the real thing. It's only a shadow - a misty-shaped replacement of whatever is truly real. AngelEyes.
Jun 17, 2009 · Jun 17, 2009. #3. The "shadows" are metaphorical (compare "obscurity"). Something that is in the shadows can no longer be clearly seen, so he fell from public notice. "Slip" here means something like "to fall by degrees", or it may mean "to move quietly and cautiously": it's unclear, to me, whether he did this actively (intentionally) or ...
Jan 9, 2021 · Senior Member. American English (New England and NYC) Jan 10, 2021. #3. It depends on the context. "In the shadows" refers to a general, shadowy, dark area. "In the shadow" refers to a specific shadow. I'd expect a sentence with "shadow" to connect the shadow to the object that casts it, as in the following: Outside the house was a huge old tree.
Nov 26, 2020 · Uncle Jack said: If the valley is imagined as being in shadow, then it would be singular. If the valley is imagined as containing shadows, then it would be plural. The very well known Psalm 23 in the Bible has "the valley of the shadow of death", as velisarius says, which may influence someone to use "shadow" (singular).
May 24, 2009 · English/French. May 24, 2009. #2. I don't know that expression but the meaning seems clear: he's fighting against things you can't fight: shadows or ghosts or illusions to fight with: A is fighting with B : a real fight with words or with blows. to fight something/someone: to struggle against something / somebody, to resist (more abstract)
May 16, 2016 · Japanese. May 16, 2016. #1. Here is the link to William Butler Yeats' Poem. When You Are Old. What does "shadows deep" mean in the last line of the fist stanza? I know it is an iverted phrase,and the ordinary order should be "deep shadows." It is used to describe Maud Gonne's eyes. Some said it is the eyes of the old Maud Gonne, others said it ...
Apr 4, 2016 · English + French - UK. Nov 16, 2006. #1. I am a bit puzzled by the phrase "Old sins cast long shadows". On the one hand, the meaning is pretty obvious (and a literal meaning is possible here). On the other hand, why would an "old sin" be worse, somewhat, than a "new sin". I would also like to know more about the phrase's origin.
Apr 2, 2018 · Senior Member. To chase shadows (idiom) - to pursue things that are not there. In this idiom "shadow" means, "ghost 1 " or "apparition 1 ", and by extension "illusion" - things that are imagined rather than real. 1 A much older use, now not current except in idioms and set phrases: "He is a shadow of his former self."
Sep 4, 2014 · Saudi Arabia. Arabic. Sep 4, 2014. #1. Hi everyone! I read this sentence from "story of my life " by Helen Keller, A few impressions stand out vividly from the first years of my life; but "the shadows of the prison-house are on the rest." What did she mean by "the shadows of the prison-house are on the rest." ?
