Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Skipper with a bone

English answer:

a dog named Skipper with a bone in his mouth

Added to glossary by Yasutomo Kanazawa
May 8, 2016 11:49
8 yrs ago
English term

Skipper with a bone

Non-PRO English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
J. D. Salinger - Nine Stories

Jimmy is an imaginary friend of a young girl, Ramona. She came home from outside:

"He got runned over," said Mary Jane. "Isn't that tragic?"
"I saw Skipper with a bone," Ramona told Eloise.
"What happened to Jimmy?" Eloise said to her.
"He got runned over and killed. I saw Skipper with a bone, and he wouldn't--"
Change log

May 8, 2016 11:49: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"

May 9, 2016 01:27: Karen Zaragoza changed "Vetting" from "Needs Vetting" to "Vet OK"

May 9, 2016 07:48: Sheila Wilson changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

May 22, 2016 05:15: Yasutomo Kanazawa Created KOG entry

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

PRO (2): acetran, Yasutomo Kanazawa

Non-PRO (3): Tony M, Edith Kelly, Sheila Wilson

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Responses

+5
16 hrs
Selected

a dog named Skipper with a bone in his mouth

My guess is that this Skipper is a dog who has a bone in his mouth.
Peer comment(s):

agree Terry Richards : Seems most likely from the context given.
49 mins
Thank you very much!
agree Tony M
54 mins
Thank you, Tony.
agree Jack Doughty
1 hr
Thank you very much!
agree Edith Kelly
1 hr
Thank you very much!
agree Yvonne Gallagher : yes, and the expression is "like a dog with a bone" =he won't let it go ("and he wouldn't...let it go")
4 hrs
Thank you very much!
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