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Dear teachers,
Would you be kind enough to give me your considered opinion concerning the interpretation of the expressions in bold in the following sentence?
With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints.
fall to pieces = crumble = to break into small fragments or particles
large joint = shin
V .
Would you be kind enough to give me your considered opinion concerning the interpretation of the expressions in bold in the following sentence?
With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints.
fall to pieces = crumble = to break into small fragments or particles
large joint = shin
V .