Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
to pass a picture of someone
English answer:
Jerking his head as he walked past her picture
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Mohamed Fouda
Mar 22, 2022 20:41
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English term
to pass a picture of someone
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English
Art/Literary
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
Here! Take it! Take it! Ow, God! I am so sorry!
HALEY: You're home early.
I was into this awesome girl, Abby, from the club.
And tonight, we were gonna take things to the next level, which is, you know, s*x. Always classy to name it. But the one problem is she's super jealous and got this idea I was messing around with Carla from the snack bar. Which I was. So I had to break it off with Carla before seeing Abby.
- How'd it go?
- I got a major tong lashing. - [GRUNTING]
- Ow! Ow! What the heck?
Whoa! Hey! Carla, calm down! Wait... Oh! Wait, wait, I can explain! I can explain! Somebody help!
LUKE: So I covered up my bruises and checked for any snack-bar-related evidence before seeing Abby.
Sorry I'm late. I got whiplash passing a picture of you. Things couldn't have been going any better...
- My dad is going to hate you. ...
Modern Family
S9 E5
HALEY: You're home early.
I was into this awesome girl, Abby, from the club.
And tonight, we were gonna take things to the next level, which is, you know, s*x. Always classy to name it. But the one problem is she's super jealous and got this idea I was messing around with Carla from the snack bar. Which I was. So I had to break it off with Carla before seeing Abby.
- How'd it go?
- I got a major tong lashing. - [GRUNTING]
- Ow! Ow! What the heck?
Whoa! Hey! Carla, calm down! Wait... Oh! Wait, wait, I can explain! I can explain! Somebody help!
LUKE: So I covered up my bruises and checked for any snack-bar-related evidence before seeing Abby.
Sorry I'm late. I got whiplash passing a picture of you. Things couldn't have been going any better...
- My dad is going to hate you. ...
Modern Family
S9 E5
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| 4 +1 | Jerking his head as he walked past her picture |
Lara Barnett
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Lara Barnett
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
www.lingocraft.co.uk
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean, UK, South African) 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
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Jerking his head as he walked past her picture
This is the second half of a phrase in which the character explains how he was so captured by the picture of this girl, that he twisted his neck (injured his neck), as he walked past looking at it so intently.
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The term you have posted simply means "walking past" the picture, but this phrase is dependent on the way he walked past twisting his neck because he was so fascinated by the picture.
Another way to explain this is a double-take:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/double-t...
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Note added at 1 hr (2022-03-22 22:37:05 GMT)
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Here is an example of how looking twice at a photo could cause whiplash (although this is quite a humorous idea all the same!!
"Flicking through the first two snaps gave many a fan WHIPLASH when they did a double-take at what seemed to be a very pregnant belly."
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/jen-hawkins-optical-illusion-...
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Note added at 1 hr (2022-03-22 22:37:49 GMT)
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So, the point is that as he "walked past" the picture, he was looking so intently at it that he got whiplash.
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Note added at 1 hr (2022-03-22 22:30:49 GMT)
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The term you have posted simply means "walking past" the picture, but this phrase is dependent on the way he walked past twisting his neck because he was so fascinated by the picture.
Another way to explain this is a double-take:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/double-t...
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Note added at 1 hr (2022-03-22 22:37:05 GMT)
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Here is an example of how looking twice at a photo could cause whiplash (although this is quite a humorous idea all the same!!
"Flicking through the first two snaps gave many a fan WHIPLASH when they did a double-take at what seemed to be a very pregnant belly."
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/jen-hawkins-optical-illusion-...
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Note added at 1 hr (2022-03-22 22:37:49 GMT)
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So, the point is that as he "walked past" the picture, he was looking so intently at it that he got whiplash.
Peer comment(s):
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philgoddard
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Thank you
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Tony M
: But not necessarily 'walking' past: the use of the specific word 'whiplash' (most often associated with car accidents) suggests he was perhaps more likely to have been 'driving' past — at any rate, 'walking' or 'driving' amounts to over interpretation.
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I assumed he was walking and using the term in an ironical way - he is joking in my opinion.
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