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Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | | English term or phrase: "a rake" | "The barber soaped my face, and then took his razor and gave me ***a rake***."
Ich vermute es ist gemeint: eine Rasur. Hat "rake" noch irgendwelche speziellen Konnotationen?
Danke!
Kein weiterer Kontext verfügbar..sorry. |
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| | a shave | Explanation:
I have never heard of having a rake meaning a shave, but it cannot mean anything else in this context. It doesn't have any special connotations. I thought it might be cockney rhyming slang, but i can't find anything. |
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Joanne Leggett
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:20
| Grading comment Danke! Die andere Lösung ist auch schön, aber etwas komplizierter in der Satzintegration.
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3 hrs confidence:   a shave
Explanation:
I have never heard of having a rake meaning a shave, but it cannot mean anything else in this context. It doesn't have any special connotations. I thought it might be cockney rhyming slang, but i can't find anything.
| Joanne Leggett
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:20
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 8
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| | Grading comment | Danke! Die andere Lösung ist auch schön, aber etwas komplizierter in der Satzintegration. |
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