To There and Back Again Bns

• #1

I'm not sure what it really means. I call back it is idiomatic. Is it ? And what does information technology hateful ?

Thank you !! )

• #2

We would like context, please... a sentence that puzzles you in which the the expression is used. Cheers.

• #3

Umm...it is a proper name of a chapter in Aladdin. So, no contexts. What would it hateful so ?

• #iv

Sorry... that'due south not much. But reading that affiliate might give you lot a clue.

• #5

I have tried to think of a situation where I might say, "been there and back over again." It sounds a great deal like, "been there and done that" when someone tells me that they have performed something they feel is unusual; something such equally their trip to London. Just to show him that I accept made a London trip I would say, "been at that place and done that." I might as well accept said, "been there and back once again." In other words, I got in that location first. That would be the meaning.

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• #six

I'grand not sure what it really means.

Information technology means merely what it says: to a identify and back again.

In the context of your Aladdin story, it may well have overtones of the children'southward nursery rhyme 'How many miles to Babylon?':
How many miles to Babylon?
Three-score and ten.
Tin can I get in that location by candle-light?
Yes, at that place and back once again.

(More here on the rhyme, if you're interested.)

Information technology is besides the sub-title of Tolkien's The Hobbit

• #7

I have tried to think of a situation where I might say, "been in that location and dorsum again." It sounds a great bargain similar, "been in that location and done that" when someone tells me that they have performed something they feel is unusual; something such as their trip to London. But to testify him that I have fabricated a London trip I would say, "been there and done that." I might too accept said, "been in that location and back again." In other words, I got there offset. That would exist the meaning.

Err...information technology means that y'all've gone to somewhere to practise something and you lot've done information technology so you get back, correct ?

• #eight

In the context of your Aladdin story, it may well have overtones of the children's nursery rhyme 'How many miles to Babylon?':
How many miles to Babylon?
Three-score and ten.
Tin can I get in that location by candle-light?
Yes, there and back once more.

Loooooob !
I don't understand this context...
"get there by candle-light" , "three-score and x" -- I don't understand them,,,

• #nine

Information technology's a children's rhyme, Nucleara - it doesn't have to make sense

(By candle-calorie-free = by the light of candles; 3 score* and 10 = 70.)

All I was saying was that in giving his affiliate the championship "At that place and dorsum over again" the writer of your Aladdin might have been thinking of the children's rhyme.

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* WR dictionary noun definition 7

• #ten

I remember what this means is that something is going and returning from a place that they accept previously gone before.

So, the chapter is probably near Aladdin going to a location he has been before or even possibly confronting a challenge or situation he has faced before.

• #11

The "once again" is associated with where you lot are at present: going to a place then coming home over again. Home is the identify you have been before, not the destination.

• #thirteen

Hey ! I've found a context: (Oliver Twist)

...-A few weeks later on, Mr.Brownlow summoned him to his study. "Here's 5 pounds and some books. Will you accept them to the bookshop where we met?"
"Of course," replied Oliver. "I'll do anything for you!"
"And come up directly home," Mr. Brownlow said.
"I'll run in that location and back again," Oliver promised-...

It ways "I'll do it and be correct back soon." right ?

Thanks again !!!

• #14

No, not actually, Nucleara.

"There and back again" has the same meaning as nosotros discussed before in the thread.
Oliver is saying he will

go to the bookshop

and

return home

- and he volition do then running.

He won't walk to the bookshop and back; he won't cycle to the bookshop and dorsum; he'll run to the bookshop and back.

• #15

Ahh...does it hateful that after he goes to the bookshop, he volition become straight home, equally Mr.Brownlo says. He won't cease by other places before comin home, right ?

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