Expression: Let's make it all that those old boys dreamed about

[Haihao]

Hi,

Could you please help me out with the following passages I have come across:

[Yankee]

Hi Haihao

1. Let's make it all that those old boys dreamed about. --> Let's make the country everything that/which those old boys dreamed about.

2. Yes, or you might say 'she is really amazing'.

3. A 'flight of ducks' is probably a group of ducks flying in some sort of (geometrical) formation

4. 'In shirt sleeves' means 'dressed very casually/informally'.

5. 'Holding up a string of croppies' means that he had put all of the fish he had caught on a string and he raised the whole bunch. Look at this picture: http://www.shaverlake.org/photos/fc396.jpg

6. Yes. The sense is "I should not be telling you what you ought to do because I can't manage to do the things I ought to do either."

Amy
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[Haihao]

Hi Amy,

Thank you so very much again! Oh, the picture you picked out for me is wonderful! That explains everything. You cleared up everything for me and now I have all the pictures I wanted!

Haihao