What does it mean when someone said: “Flipping fins.”? Can you show me other phrases that have the similar meaning with that?
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No idea. Please supply some context.
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Hi Hongdung,
The word ‘flipping’ is often used as an adjective in place of a stronger expletive. If you describe someone as a ‘flipping nuisance’, you mean that they are very irritating.
Alan
Well, this phrase is used in a story, when 2 young girls discover a chest in a shipwreck under the sea: “…It was like something out of the ‘Treasure Island’. I swam under the table and Shona help me drag it out. ‘Flipping fins,’ she sail quietly, staring at something dangling at the front of the chain.”
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I agree with Alan, and the context bears him out, but I still can make nothing specific of ‘fins’. What does she see ‘dangling at the front of the chain’?
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It has concern with a previous part of story - a detail to helped 2 of them to find out new evidence of a secret. But it is not a climax of this story. A brass padlock that they haved a key to fit in.
Perhaps they mean “flip fins”, diver’s flippers? Although I’ve never seen it written like that.
Hi,
It’s simply ‘alliteration’ as ‘Jumping Joshuas’ or ‘silly Susan’ or what you will.
Alan