nelson13
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In that same story, there is a line I can't understand and I hope you can help me:
If in the examination, I would say it means the mother doesn't feel there is an unborn child in her womb.
Could anyone help me out?
They never forgot that it was death, and the touch of the man's dead body gave them strange emotions, different in each of the women; a great dread possessed them both, the mother felt the lie was given to her womb, she was denied; the wife felt the utter isolation of the human soul, the child within her was a weight apart from her.
[/h]But this time OALD is useless; I find DH Lawrence's meaning unintelligible.Idioms
[h=4]give the lie to something (formal): to show that something is not true
eg These new figures give the lie to the belief that unemployment is going down
If in the examination, I would say it means the mother doesn't feel there is an unborn child in her womb.
Could anyone help me out?