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how to understand "rescued from a skip"? he very delicately positioned each letter onto the cylinder using a pair of tweezers from a lady’s manicure set he had rescued from a skip.
Sep 3, 2015 12:51 AM
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a skip, in this context, is a very large industrial rubbish (waste) bin. So he found the tweezers in the rubbish (trash).
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