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I have been reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and came across this sentence which sounded odd to me.
Sometimes he would get seized with oddly distracted moods and stare into the sky as if hypnotized until someone asked him what he was doing. Then he would start guiltily for a moment, relax and grin.
This is in reference to a character who is hiding his being an alien while on Earth and it's trying to pass for a normal human.
I had never encountered the phrase but can sort of see that it could mean he is surprised and for a moment acts as though he was exposed and but then again, I'm not quite sure.
Searching for other occurrences of the phrase results in several examples in Google Books that could also be interpreted this way but I might just be confirming my own biases.
The fact that there's multiple usages of the phrase (see here or here) makes me think this is somewhat common but yet I can't find a definition or usage example on a dictionary anywhere.
Have you ever heard this phrase? What do you think it means?
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I have been reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and came across this sentence which sounded odd to me.
Sometimes he would get seized with oddly distracted moods and stare into the sky as if hypnotized until someone asked him what he was doing. Then he would start guiltily for a moment, relax and grin.
This is in reference to a character who is hiding his being an alien while on Earth and it's trying to pass for a normal human.
I had never encountered the phrase but can sort of see that it could mean he is surprised and for a moment acts as though he was exposed and but then again, I'm not quite sure.
Searching for other occurrences of the phrase results in several examples in Google Books that could also be interpreted this way but I might just be confirming my own biases.
The fact that there's multiple usages of the phrase (see here or here) makes me think this is somewhat common but yet I can't find a definition or usage example on a dictionary anywhere.
Have you ever heard this phrase? What do you think it means?
meaning phrases expressions
asked 9 mins ago
Juan Camilo Torres
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I have been reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and came across this sentence which sounded odd to me.
Sometimes he would get seized with oddly distracted moods and stare into the sky as if hypnotized until someone asked him what he was doing. Then he would start guiltily for a moment, relax and grin.
This is in reference to a character who is hiding his being an alien while on Earth and it's trying to pass for a normal human.
I had never encountered the phrase but can sort of see that it could mean he is surprised and for a moment acts as though he was exposed and but then again, I'm not quite sure.
Searching for other occurrences of the phrase results in several examples in Google Books that could also be interpreted this way but I might just be confirming my own biases.
The fact that there's multiple usages of the phrase (see here or here) makes me think this is somewhat common but yet I can't find a definition or usage example on a dictionary anywhere.
Have you ever heard this phrase? What do you think it means?
meaning phrases expressions
asked 9 mins ago
Juan Camilo Torres
365
I have been reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and came across this sentence which sounded odd to me.
Sometimes he would get seized with oddly distracted moods and stare into the sky as if hypnotized until someone asked him what he was doing. Then he would start guiltily for a moment, relax and grin.
This is in reference to a character who is hiding his being an alien while on Earth and it's trying to pass for a normal human.
I had never encountered the phrase but can sort of see that it could mean he is surprised and for a moment acts as though he was exposed and but then again, I'm not quite sure.
Searching for other occurrences of the phrase results in several examples in Google Books that could also be interpreted this way but I might just be confirming my own biases.
The fact that there's multiple usages of the phrase (see here or here) makes me think this is somewhat common but yet I can't find a definition or usage example on a dictionary anywhere.
Have you ever heard this phrase? What do you think it means?
meaning phrases expressions
meaning phrases expressions
asked 9 mins ago
Juan Camilo Torres
365
asked 9 mins ago
Juan Camilo Torres
365
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365
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365
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