KLPNO
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Hello everyone,
From the book Psychology of Hope by Charles Snyder.
Gus tried many different ways to catch fish. Opening his battered aluminum tackle box, he looked over trays revealed every lure and bait imaginable. And he would use most of them. The menu of live baits included such delicacies as worms, leeches, grasshoppers, and minnows. We would fish in shallow water, in deep water, beside weed beds, near docks, in open water, on and on.
The bolded phrase seems a bit strange to me.
Is "look over" a phrasal verb meaning to examine something/look at somefing carefully?
And does the phrase in question mean as below?
1. Gus opened his tackle box.
2. Opening the box revealed trays.
3. There were every lure and bait imaginable in the trays.
4. Gus carefully looked at every lure and bait.
From the book Psychology of Hope by Charles Snyder.
Gus tried many different ways to catch fish. Opening his battered aluminum tackle box, he looked over trays revealed every lure and bait imaginable. And he would use most of them. The menu of live baits included such delicacies as worms, leeches, grasshoppers, and minnows. We would fish in shallow water, in deep water, beside weed beds, near docks, in open water, on and on.
The bolded phrase seems a bit strange to me.
Is "look over" a phrasal verb meaning to examine something/look at somefing carefully?
And does the phrase in question mean as below?
1. Gus opened his tackle box.
2. Opening the box revealed trays.
3. There were every lure and bait imaginable in the trays.
4. Gus carefully looked at every lure and bait.