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#2 (permalink) Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:16 am meaning of "I'm a closed book" |
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Hi Storm
Is the sentence "I am a closed book" your sentence or did you read it somewhere? If you read it somewhere, what was the context?
We sometimes say that a person is an "open book", which means that it is easy to understand, to know, or to discover information about that person.
So, your sentence "I am a closed book", seems to mean "I am not easy to understand". However, depending on the context, there may be other ways of interpreting that sentence.
It would be more common to say that a certain topic (rather than a person) is a "closed book to me", and that means that the topic is something that you don't know anything about or that the topic is a complete mystery to you.
"Pharmacokinetics is a closed book to me. I know nothing about it." . _________________ "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln |
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Yankee I'm a Communicator ;-)

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#3 (permalink) Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:42 am Umm. a closed book... |
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Well Ami, I was asked this sentence by my engineer student at the hotel. He was trying to sign up in a dating website and I reckon this is a kind of drop down menu to choose what kind of person one is? Only a short phrase "a closed book". This is very new to me so I asked for help here then.
Thank you very much for your good explaination as always. |
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Storm I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#4 (permalink) Sat Oct 06, 2007 16:56 pm meaning of "I'm a closed book" |
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There's a similar sentence in spanish
Perhaps it means that you can hear (listen?) someone's secret, and you won't tell to someone else. You're a Book (because you have information) but you're closed (Because no one can know this information)
What do you think of it? |
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Forastero I'm new here and I like it ;-)

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#5 (permalink) Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:58 am meaning of "I'm a closed book" |
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Means he or she won't have sex with ya!
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Papatyae You can meet me at english-test.net

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#7 (permalink) Fri Aug 21, 2009 14:35 pm meaning of "I'm a closed book" |
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...nope, only an american way to say "won't shag wit anyone right there, no hope to get from that".
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#8 (permalink) Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:58 am meaning of "I'm a closed book" |
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| Nic' wrote: |
| Means he or she won't have sex with ya! |
No, it doesn't mean that.
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...nope, only an american way to say "won't shag wit anyone right there, no hope to get from that".
Nic' |
Again, you're wrong.
You obviously aren't an American, and have absolutely no knowledge of American idioms or saying.
As an American, I can tell you that your are 100% incorrect in your definition.
Please refrain from giving useless advice to others that is incorrect. I suggest you look to correcting your own English before pulling erroneous advice out your own butt.
Also, try and pay attention to the dates of the topics. You resurrected a thread 2 years dead only to give faulty advice and confuse people anew. _________________ Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
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Skrej I'm here quite often ;-)

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