Construction: to be in place

[Anna.ha]

I've looked the constuction up in dictionary.com and it has quite a few meanings. One among them is the following.

in place:

in the correct or usual position or order: Dinner is ready and everything is in place.

I am wondering if the meaning of the sentence is dinner has already been cooked and ready to be eaten. "Everything is in place" means things needed for the dinner such as cutlery set, handkerchief, tissue,... has also been put on the table and ready to be used.

So am I correct in understanding that?

[Mister Micawber]

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Yes.
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[Anna.ha]

That was only part of the story with "place". In the dictionary I have found it has at least 50 meanings/context associated with the word "place". I wish I could cover almost of them.

So, one question for you Mr. M, as you are a native-speaker of English, have you ever faced with a context on a newspaper or wheresoever that has a phrasal verb or construction about which you have no idea?

So what do you usually do at that time to get to understood them? Please say something about it?

Thanks

[Mister Micawber]

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I am certainly not a non-native speaker of English! Do you pay no attention to member profiles or signatures at all, Anna?
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[Anna.ha]

I am afraid I do not understand your answer. I made the above question after I had seen your signature "Canadian-American" native speaker, right? So what did you mean by that?

[Mister Micawber]

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I could have sworn your post said that I was not a native speaker, sorry.

No, I have never been faced with a phrasal verb that I had no idea about. Although some are quite colloquial, all are among the common vocabulary that we learn from infancy to youth. They are composed of the most basic verbs and adverbs in the language, and do not have to be learned in the way that we must learn the many more formal, Latin- or Greek-based polysyllables that we acquire during our college and adult years.
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