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Please explain this
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sorji
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Please explain this
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Hi.
Would you please tell what the underlined phrase in this conversation means:
A:Give me half the fries.
B:No.No legs ?! Get some from over there!
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20 Jan 2010
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aquarius_gr
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I �ve never read or heard that before but it means (sarcasm) "are you lazy?"/"can �t you walk?" prompting the person to get up and do something on his own.
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20 Jan 2010
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eng789
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I agree- that �s what it means. But it should probably be,
Don �t you have legs? |
20 Jan 2010
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Kohaku
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It sounds like Chicken legs to me 
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20 Jan 2010
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Jayho
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Yes, it refers to laziness. The speaker is using, what some grammarians refer to as, a form of ellipsis where part of the sentence is missing, like a contracted form of what eng789 wrote, but where the meaning is still clear. Swan covers it in one of his student books (but does not refer to it as ellipsis). |
20 Jan 2010
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