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Question: Please explain to me these simple phrases (English is my second language)?
I’ve just started watching “How an Economy grows and Why it doesn’t” on Youtube.
Here are some phrases in the movie that I can not understand, please give me some easy to understand explanations:
1) “Fishing by hand is no bucket of bass”. What is “bucket of bass”?
2) “This is survival, and that’s about all”. What is “that’s about all”
3) “The next day B and C make much sport of A’s invention”. What is “make much sport of”?
4) “A is nobody’s fool”. What is “nobody’s fool”?
5) What does this phrase mean: “Not everybody is cut out for self-deprivation”?
6) “I might want to eat them if I’m ever sick or something happens”. What is ” If I’m ever sick”
7) “man, what a pig-out”. What is “what a pig-out”? 
Why they use “2 fish” instead of “2 fishes”
Thank you very much!
Answer:
Answer by lilmegsx1
I’m English and I’m sorry but I can only help you with a few of the numbers.
4) By nobody’s fool I believe they mean “A” doesn’t do what anyone one wants and nobody controls him.
5) Not everybody can stand to deprive (go without) themselves of something.
7) To “pig out” is a phrase used to describe eating a lot of food sometimes very messily.
I don’t know why we do this, it’s just an unusual grammar rule we use for example we say 2 sheep instead of 2 sheeps.
I really hope I helped 
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Question: Summer reading/writing project., Please help! Figurative language!?
I have a summer project for my honors english class and i really need help! I read the Old Man And The Sea and i have to write down 10 sentences that use figurative language, i found some sentences but i don’t know what type of figurative language is used or even if it uses figurative language, so if you know please help me!:
1. “He was so big it was like lashing a much bigger skiff alongside”
2 “The old man looked at him with his sun – burned,confident loving eyes”
3. “During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing”
4. “Then the fish came alive, with his death in him and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty”
5. “Just then he saw a man – of – war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him”
6. “The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it”
7. “The old man withdrew the blade and punched the shark exactly in the same spot again”
8.”You were born to be a fisherman as the fish was born to be a fish”
9. “The iridescent bubbles were beautiful”
10. “He could not even see a bird”
11.”One bait was down forty fathoms”
12. “He was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt with the cold of te night”
13.”Imagine if each day a mn must try to kill the moon, he thought”
14″But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped into the water.’
15. “The tuna shone silver in the sun and after ha had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps over the bait”
please help!.. thank you(:
Answer:
Answer by Quad
1. “He was so big it was like lashing a much bigger skiff alongside”
SIMILE_comparing lashing a whale with lashing a fish.
2 “The old man looked at him with his sun – burned,confident loving eyes”
PERSONIFICATION-His eyes are personified as confident
3. “During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing”
4. “Then the fish came alive, with his death in him and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty”
JUXTAPOSITION OF OPPOSITES: alive with his death
5. “Just then he saw a man – of – war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him”
6. “The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it”
SIMILE:clouds rose like mountains rise
METAPHOR-coast is being compared with a long, green line
7. “The old man withdrew the blade and punched the shark exactly in the same spot again”
8.”You were born to be a fisherman as the fish was born to be a fish”
PARALLELISM: you/fisherman:fish\fish
9. “The iridescent bubbles were beautiful”
10. “He could not even see a bird”
11.”One bait was down forty fathoms”
12. “He was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt with the cold of te night”
13.”Imagine if each day a mn must try to kill the moon, he thought”
personification of moon as though it were alive
14″But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped into the water.’
15. “The tuna shone silver in the sun and after ha had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps over the bait”