Hi Madhulk!, No, I think the speaker is making a simple comparison here between 'where he (or she) comes from' and the 'huge city'. The speaker seems to be overwhelmed by, or in awe of, his (or her) new environment.

Hi Olga, It could well be that "take someone down a peg" is more commonly heard in Britain than it is in North America (personally, I rarely hear the expression 'take down a notch' used in the UK, at least in the sense of

Hi Madhulk, With all due respect to Kanashu's comment, I read Lois Lane's "I'm not cut out to date" remark here as referring specifically to this one individual, whom she finds intimidating. I think it's basically a lack

Hi Madhulk, Hmmm, even with more context, I still find the remark "You know you were much more than that" ambiguous here. Oliver's girlfriend's motives for putting the bracelet of her dead friend onto her own wrist are still

Hi Madhulk!, Possibly, but it's hard to say without more context. If her deceased friend had returned the bracelet to her from her deathbed, saying "I want you to have this back, as a memento of me" then that hardly makes

Hi Madhulk!, Maybe, but I think it's more likely that what's on the tip of Oliver's tongue is the goodbye that Tess alleges he'd never actually said.

Hi Clive, Yes, although we lack a full context for the original post, I think that your explanation of the term 'hut' here is more likely to be the correct one than is my own.

Hi, The greatest building in the world. 29-8-2008 It was such an incredibly sunny day that I needed to wear a long sleeve d t-shirt so as not to be burn t . From Since yesterday, I 'd had butterflies in my stomach , with high expectations of

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Hi, "Hut' could possibly mean any of those (I don't play rugby myself!), but I think it's more likely to simply mean a wooden building that the teams use as a changing room before and after the match.