Annakrutitskaya
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Dear Teachers,
Please, help me to understand the meaning and the way both idioms are constructed, why this or that additional verb is used with them - the logical meaning behind them, so I could understand the difference, which is so big, and how to use them correctly.
1. Bang up - means "to crash" (skip the version about the jail) - He banged up his car in the race.
2. Bang up against smth - means "severely run into something", correct?
3. Any successor system will bang up against the same difficulties - any system will be crashed because of the difficulties?
4. We ran bang up against more trouble - we unexpectedly faced even more trouble? Why do we use the verb "ran" here and how is it combined with "bang up against"?
5. They came bang up against fierce opposition - they unexpectedly ran into a fierce opposition? why do we use "came" here?
6. David did a bang-up job baking the birthday cake - meaning that he did a succesfull job baking the cake?
Thank you!
Please, help me to understand the meaning and the way both idioms are constructed, why this or that additional verb is used with them - the logical meaning behind them, so I could understand the difference, which is so big, and how to use them correctly.
1. Bang up - means "to crash" (skip the version about the jail) - He banged up his car in the race.
2. Bang up against smth - means "severely run into something", correct?
3. Any successor system will bang up against the same difficulties - any system will be crashed because of the difficulties?
4. We ran bang up against more trouble - we unexpectedly faced even more trouble? Why do we use the verb "ran" here and how is it combined with "bang up against"?
5. They came bang up against fierce opposition - they unexpectedly ran into a fierce opposition? why do we use "came" here?
6. David did a bang-up job baking the birthday cake - meaning that he did a succesfull job baking the cake?
Thank you!
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