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Joined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:56 am
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Post Help me with learning English phrase?
The below I have hard time understanding the meanings.
Please help me with any one of these questions!!

?this one seems to be out of the same mould as other movies.
Is this mean "this movie" has the same thing as "other movies"?

?Even we'd been discussing something technical, we'd gravitate to the horse.
They are talking about movie(horse racing movie) making,
and I don't get what "gravitate to" means here.


?You did this amazing thing with this father/son story and the father/daughter story, I think it really does play across the board.
What does "play across the board" mean?


Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:56 am
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Post Re: Help me with learning English phrase?
1. "this movie" refers to the one they are talking about "other movies" refer to another movie/s that they have seen .
2."gravitate to" means that they are going to that horse or tending to go that way.
3. "play across the board" means it applys to everything it is a slang term that comes from gambling.


Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:30 am
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Post Re: Help me with learning English phrase?
to be of the same mould means, to be made in the same format, simply to be made in the same way as the other movies.
To gravitate is to head in a direction. Simply that they allways ended up heading toward the horse discussion.
To play across the board means to touch on all or many subjects. Simply that the story described had all the subjects from on extreme to the other.

gravitate play across the board


Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:33 am
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Post Re: Help me with learning English phrase?
Hopefully this will help you learn how to understand words meanings better.

gravitate is a verb (action word) for the word gravity. if you look up the word gravity in a dictionary, you will find something like this: The natural force of attraction exerted by Earth, tending to draw toward the center of the body.

so in this case gravitate means that they would be drawn to the horse.


Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:39 am
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