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12-Nov-2006, 11:30
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How do you describe the situation in the above image?
"A woman is walking her dog while riding a bicycle."
Is this corrrect? I guess 'walk one's dog' is a popular phrase.
However, in the above picture the woman is riding a bicycle, so the dog is running.
In that sense, I guess,
"A woman is running her dog while riding a bicycle." might be better.
I'm not sure though.
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12-Nov-2006, 12:48
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| |  Re: walk her dog? run her dog?
exercising her dog would be better - let's hope it doesn't see a rabbit! |
12-Nov-2006, 15:21
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| | Re: walk her dog? run her dog?
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Originally Posted by curmudgeon  exercising her dog would be better - let's hope it doesn't see a rabbit! | Or 'taking her dog for a run'. There are several transitive meanings for run, but none of them would apply here.
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12-Nov-2006, 16:20
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| | Re: walk her dog? run her dog?
I think exercising her dog is more appropriate. what about jogging I mean: jog her dog as she riding...o no aia don't think so well excercising is ok after all  confusing  |
13-Nov-2006, 00:02
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| | Re: walk her dog? run her dog?
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Originally Posted by JACOOL I think exercising her dog is more appropriate. what about jogging I mean: jog her dog as she riding...o no aia don't think so well excercising is ok after all confusing | I would say "nice rear end"...and the woman ain't too bad either.  |
13-Nov-2006, 00:25
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| | Re: walk her dog? run her dog?
Yes she can slip a collar on me any time she likes |
13-Nov-2006, 07:25
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What does "slip a collar on someone" mean? |
13-Nov-2006, 07:35
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Originally Posted by peppy_man What does "slip a collar on someone" mean? | It refers to putting a collar on, for example, a dog. |
13-Nov-2006, 09:16
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| | Re: walk her dog? run her dog?
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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork It refers to putting a collar on, for example, a dog. | But in Curmudgeon's case it means something sexual - restrictive, either socially or ph.... no, this is a family show. 
Interestingly, Latin used a similar phrase, but it wasn't slang: for a woman to marry a man she put him under the yoke; but a man couldn't do that to a woman: sub jugum ponere - woman > man uxorem ducere - man > woman
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Originally Posted by BobK But in Curmudgeon's case it means something sexual - restrictive, either socially or ph.... no, this is a family show.
Interestingly, Latin used a similar phrase, but it wasn't slang: for a woman to marry a man she put him under the yoke; but a man couldn't do that to a woman: sub jugum ponere - woman > man uxorem ducere - man > woman
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