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reverseblade
28 abr 2014

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  • Inglés (US)
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While reading a dictionary, I encountered the following sentence.

"As a little boy, I accepted as gospel everything my father told me."

It sounded kinda strange to me as I had never heard a sentence made of such a sentence structure.

The question is, could the sentence above and the following one which I made myself be interchangeable?

"As a little boy, I accepted everything my father told me as gospel."

Thanks a lot in advance!

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28 abr 2014

  • Inglés (US)

"Accept as gospel" is an idiom. It means, "to believe something as completely true"

So the phrase is really just saying, "As a boy, I took everything my father said as the truth"

I think it's a phrase anyone that didn't know the idiom, wouldn't understand it.

The way you reworded it is good!

reverseblade
28 abr 2014

  • Japonés
Thank you!

I didn't know the idiom. Problem solved :)
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While reading a dictionary, I encountered the following sentence. "As a little boy, I accepted as gospel everything my father told me." It sounded kinda strange to me as I had never heard a sentence made of such a sentence structure. The question is, could the sentence above and the following one which I made myself be interchangeable? "As a little boy, I accepted everything my father told me as gospel." Thanks a lot in advance!
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