Timeline for What does 'turn things over his fingers' mean?
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| Jan 20, 2014 at 15:59 | vote | accept | some user | ||
| Jan 20, 2014 at 15:42 | answer | added | Peter Shor | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 20, 2014 at 14:08 | comment | added | Kris | Indeed, even I thought both the instances of 'things' associated with the same objects (the things 'looked at' are the same things that are 'turned'), but then may not be. Or, could it be that he was looking at clods and such on the ground and turning them over with the front of the shoe? In that case, it's usually only one of the shoes (same every time, by habit), not both. | |
| Jan 20, 2014 at 13:50 | comment | added | some user | @Kris, quite a reasonable explanation. But, in that case wouldn't it be "to turn the things over his fingers"? I feel, 'to look at things' and 'to turn things over his fingers' are two things he does when he leans forward. | |
| Jan 20, 2014 at 13:41 | comment | added | Kris | The 'things' that happen to be 'over' his fingers (toes?) were the top-cap part of the shoes. Every time you stop (suddenly), you throw your entire weight forward. The weight shifts from heel to toe. The foot inclines in such a way that the toes stay horizontal while the rest of the foot is at an angle -- heels at the highest from the ground. The front of the shoe suffers a curl. With repeated use, the shoes become permanently 'turned up'. It happens to me all the time. | |
| Jan 20, 2014 at 13:18 | history | edited | some user | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 20, 2014 at 12:24 | comment | added | some user | Apart from this whole paragraph, there is no mention of the deformed shoes in the story. But, you can find the whole story here . | |
| Jan 20, 2014 at 12:20 | comment | added | Argot | I thought getting more context would help me to know the answer. | |
| Jan 20, 2014 at 11:58 | history | asked | some user | CC BY-SA 3.0 |