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[FONT=나]Egbert isn’t the sort of name[/FONT][FONT=나] [/FONT][FONT=나]m[/FONT][FONT=나]ost[/FONT][FONT=나] f[/FONT][FONT=나]e[/FONT][FONT=나]ll[/FONT][FONT=나]o[/FONT][FONT=나]w[/FONT][FONT=나]s [/FONT][FONT=나]w[/FONT][FONT=나]ou[/FONT][FONT=나]l[/FONT][FONT=나]d be s[/FONT][FONT=나]een[/FONT][FONT=나]dead in a ditchwith[/FONT][FONT=나].
In the above sentence the narrator is insinuating the name "Egbert" is not a common name, but what exactly the above sentence means?
How does the idiom 'dead in a ditch with" be in another situation, for example ?
It is from the novel 'Grey Mask' by Patricia Wentworh in 1929.
(I am not a native English speaker.)[/FONT]
In the above sentence the narrator is insinuating the name "Egbert" is not a common name, but what exactly the above sentence means?
How does the idiom 'dead in a ditch with" be in another situation, for example ?
It is from the novel 'Grey Mask' by Patricia Wentworh in 1929.
(I am not a native English speaker.)[/FONT]