Correction please! I have just come through this sentence while reading an article: " The ideal culture, he writes, would provide both for a person’s physical needs and for the intellectual freedom to

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Correction please! I have just come through this sentence while reading an article: " The ideal culture, he writes, would provide both for a person’s physical needs and for the intellectual freedom to develop one’s selfhood. Most cultures and subcultures – political, religious, and social – fail to meet this tall order." . What does "tall order" mean here? Could it mean "unreachable aim"? And what other phrases would you use to deliver the same meaning? Could we say "this high order" instead of "this tall order"?

26 апр. 2019 г., 0:26

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Thank you Danielle!

26 апреля 2019 г.

You're right to think it means something like "unreachable aim". Tall order means the goal is big or lofty and is hard to meet. Another similar phrase might be "big shoes to fill". To replace this phrase,I think "expectation" and "goal" works well here but "high order" doesn't as "tall order" is a set phrase and we can't just replace tall for a similar word.

26 апреля 2019 г.

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