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What does scrubby-clean mean?
The whole sentense: At first the crowd is skeptical, especially because of our outfits and our scrubby-clean faces.
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What does "Headed for Sainthood" mean?
"Before this weekend I’d had an idea of myself, or at least a goal, of the sort of person I’d wanted to be. I’d be a Girl Scout crossed with a nun and a headmistress, with a collection of Good Conduct medals and Headed for Sainthood trophies, all of which I’d be too modest to accept."
So, I believe this term doesn't exist but still what does it mean exactly? Like it's for someine who decided to become a monk/nun?
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What is a a picnic spot?
"I wasn’t sure what I’d expected to find but everything looked just the way I remembered. The quarry was both beautiful and intimidating, like a picnic spot on the moon. You could see where the miners and their machines had sliced through the rock, but trees and grass and vines were reclaiming any area with soil and even sprouting through cracks in the granite"
Is it a simple picnic spot or is it some metaphor or maybe a crater?
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Deze inhoud schendt onze communityrichtlijnen.7 februari 2020
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Cellophane and Popsicle on Mars
Hi!
Please help me understand two words, please!
The firts one is cellophane
You walked right into that salon and said, ‘Look at all of those marvelous bottles over there with so many different hair colors and rinses, and are those called cellophanes? Tiffani, I trust you.’
So, is it what we use for packaging? Or is it something else - some special thing for hair or I don't know what... XD
The second one:
“You were so outlaw,” said Sophie. “You shut your eyes and Tiffani got busy. And that, like, gave me courage, so I told Misti Ramona, who was one of the other stylists, to get goin’ with my topknot. I told her to think parfait Popsicle on Mars. Do you love it?”
I undersatnd what Popsicle is (ice pop). But what is Popsicle on Mars? Do they mean the planet Mars or maybe chocolate bar?
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What does "to be on it" mean?
There were two girls, their car had been stolen/ One of the girls recalling the situation:
“Catey, you were so on it,” said Sophie. “You just stood there and you looked around and you saw this convertible. You pointed at it and you said, ‘The Lord provides.’ ”
What does "you were so on it" mean? Like the girl sorted out their problem?
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What or who is a booty-humper?
The sentence is
Well,” Heller began, “at the tattoo place you were a wild booty-humper. You were kissing Billy for a really long time—no, I would say that you were devouring him. All I could see were his feet sticking out of your mouth.
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What does "hacked off" mean?
The extract is:
I was feeling fantastic and when I glanced in the rearview mirror I saw that my hair had been hacked off and dyed at least five neon colors and there was a little silver post sticking through the side of my nose.
The narrator is a girl.
So, I understand that her hair was cut but is it clear from the verb how it was cut? Like is her hair now really-really short, like boy's? Or it can be anything?
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What does "blahdiddy blahddidy blah" mean?
The sentence is:
I know that the chemo and the biopsies and the transfusions, it’s all supposed to make me
better and save my life and, like, hooray for that and blahdiddy blahddidy blah.
Is it the same as "blah blah blah"?
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What is the meaning of this two words?
So, the first one:
“I need to get a tattoo,” said Sophie.
“Ink?” asked Heller. “Your first?”
I don't have any tattoos, and I'm not an expert. What does ink mean? I thought all tattoos are made by using ink...
The second one:
"God does not want us to disfigure our bodies, which are his sacred gifts to us, with graven images of skulls and dragons and Chinese lettering".
Here "graven image" means worshiping idols, right?
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