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| It's me again, and I am still stuck with "Buck Fanshaw's Funeral" What would the following sentence mean? "When you get in with your left I hunt grass every time. Every time you draw, you fill; but I don't seem to have any luck. Lets have a new deal." I am sure it has to do with Card Games. You can find the story here |
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| I think that the speaker is trying to express his inability to understand the preacher, and wants a new deal, meaning to start again at the beginning. |
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| Thank you for the reply. What does "hunt the grass" signify? I think I got the general idea of the statement. It's the verbatim meaning that I am interested in. Yours |
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| It's not a phrase I am familiar with and there aren't many examples of it. There's one example on the web of a saying 'how smart do you have to be to hunt grass', but that doesn't fit here for me. I think it suggests catching grass rather than an animal, of failing in other words- in this case failing to comprehend. |
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| Thank you It makes some sense. I will go with it if I didn't find any other explanations. Yours |
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