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The title of Horace McCoy's novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is also. What is the meaning of this enigmatic sentence? How is the crime related to horses? I didn't read the book, but it's commonly known that people shoot wounded horses because it's not cost-effective to heal them (and it's possibly also euthanasic).
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Aug 29, 2020 · 3. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? is a novel by Agatha Christie. In the story, a dying man's last words "Why didn't they ask Evans?" inspires an amateur detective investigation, in which ultimately. I was told once that the title of this story was inspired by a phrase Agatha Christie overheard, "why didn't they ask Evans?", and she decided to write ...
Dec 13, 2018 · The title of Horace McCoy's novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is also What is the meaning of this enigmatic sentence? How is the crime related to ...
Sep 29, 2019 · I think this is a triple pun by Pratchett. 1: The light (adj, humorous, not serious) fantastic (noun, speculative fiction). 2: The light (noun, illumination) fantastic (adj. magical). 3: as in Milton. But I agree that (2) is the meaning they should have picked for the translation. English has pretty strict word order.
Feb 14, 2021 · 4. (I'm doing these slightly out of order for reasons of convenience) "Dogs" was slang for "feet", originally from journalist T. A. Dorgan in 1913. "Pooped out" is an idiom meaning that someone/something is exhausted. Thus "My dogs was pooped out" is an informal way of saying "My feet are very tired". "Put on the dog" is an idiom meaning to to ...
Oct 1, 2021 · In Fantastic Beasts (2001), the various kinds of flying horses were picturesque inventions with no particular idea about how they would be used in the Harry Potter novels. Several entries in Fantastic Beasts are drawn from classical mythology (basilisk, centaur, chimaera, hippogriff, manticore, phoenix, sphinx), and so it is likely that the flying horses come from the myth of Pegasus .
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, I thought. Travellers don’t know where they’re going. (This was easy to find using Google Books search, which I commend to you.) * Is Theroux referring to the Bluegill Prime accident, in which a nuclear-armed PGM-17 Thor ballistic missile exploded on the launch platform? This accident was in July ...
Aug 24, 2020 · Also, I found it odd that they wait so very long until they bring up the fact that Gandalf somehow survived after they had seen him fall to his death and was assumed dead by all in the Fellowship. You'd think they would be more shocked and immediately ask how he can be alive and whatnot, but they almost don't seem surprised at all. And Gandalf's way of approaching them also seems quite ...
Jul 4, 2021 · Rabbit warrens in hard to get-at places are the perfect target for this bit of technology. Members of the Strathbogie Tableland Landcare Group got together on Sat morning to see a demo of how to use the group’s ‘gas gun’. This tool uses LPG gas to cause an explosion in the mouth of a warren, which sends a shock wave down the burrow.
