Aug 6, 2004 07:03
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English term
leave the impression the sky was going to fall
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¡°We said, ¡®The armed men ¡¯re lining up. They ¡®re coming in droves.¡¯¡± In truth it was a hoax. ¡°the only weapon we had,¡± He admitted, ¡°was to leave the impression the sky was going to fall.¡±
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means "end of the world". they needed to make it look like they were going to annihilate the enemy
They had to pretend that they had something terrible in store for their enemy. In fact they had nothing, of course, but they knew they could make it look like they were going to totally destroy, annihilate the enemy in a horrific fashion.
The expression itself means smth like "the end of the world". Something that has been prognosticated and feared for ages, but has never happened. Used in everyday speech to refer to a terrible consequence of something (an action or an event).
The expression itself means smth like "the end of the world". Something that has been prognosticated and feared for ages, but has never happened. Used in everyday speech to refer to a terrible consequence of something (an action or an event).
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David Russi
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that something terrible was going to happen
that something terrible was going to happen
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humbird
: Yes, you are right by itself. See my comment.
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Armorel Young
: a reference to various stories about the sky falling in see e.g. http://www.kidscookiemix.com/storytime/storyhenny.htm
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Judith Platter
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Ramesh Madhavan
: Asterix??
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Vicky Papaprodromou
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Cilian O'Tuama
: reminds me of Henny Penny
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Eva Karpouzi
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Rajan Chopra
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Jacqueline McKay (X)
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chica nueva
: 'The sky is falling down, the sky is falling down.' from the story/fable Chicken Licken see http://www.alt.hist.no/fag/engelsk/en130-a/fairytales_rhymes... licken.doc Search on 'sky is falling down' for war refs.
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As though a disaster was going to happen
The overall meaning of your quote is, they (the speaker's side) had no forces to inflict damages against the enemy. They had no means to defend themselves, so all they could was put up a facade, in hope they could deceive the enemy.
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