Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
"Get to higher ground fast"
English answer:
quickly go up the nearest hill
- The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2014-03-19 22:54:10 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Mar 16, 2014 21:23
10 yrs ago
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English term
"Get to higher ground fast"
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Hello Dears,
I came across the sentences "Get to higher ground fast!", but I am not sure what it means.
Can anybody explain this to me?
Thank you in advance.
Yibebiz
I came across the sentences "Get to higher ground fast!", but I am not sure what it means.
Can anybody explain this to me?
Thank you in advance.
Yibebiz
Responses
| 3 +9 | quickly go up the nearest hill |
J Fox
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| 4 | become more spiritually /ethically aware or reach a higher consciousness* |
Jenni Lukac (X)
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| 4 | become successful / improve quickly |
acetran
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quickly go up the nearest hill
To me, this sounds like an instruction about what to do in the case of a tsunami. Since the recent tsunamis there has been a lot of information on what to do if there is a risk of a tsunami - and here in New Zealand we now have regular tsunami drills.
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Jean-Claude Gouin
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AllegroTrans
: or the nearest high ground in fact
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Tina Vonhof (X)
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Phong Le
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B D Finch
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Yvonne Gallagher
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Václav Pinkava
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Rebecca Hendry
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks!"
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become more spiritually /ethically aware or reach a higher consciousness*
Unless a tsunami is rolling in and we need to literally run to a higher elevation.
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become successful / improve quickly
1. if a person or an organization has the high ground, they are in the best
and most successful situation.
Eg. His company holds the high ground in the area of multi-media disks. Both parties
could be seen trying to take the high ground on issues such as education.
2. if something has the high ground, it is thought to be of good quality, serious, and honest.
Eg. Our programmes hold the high ground of British broadcast journalism. We have
lost the moral high ground by backing regimes with poor human rights records.
So, depending on the context, it can be 1 or 2.
and most successful situation.
Eg. His company holds the high ground in the area of multi-media disks. Both parties
could be seen trying to take the high ground on issues such as education.
2. if something has the high ground, it is thought to be of good quality, serious, and honest.
Eg. Our programmes hold the high ground of British broadcast journalism. We have
lost the moral high ground by backing regimes with poor human rights records.
So, depending on the context, it can be 1 or 2.
Peer comment(s):
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B D Finch
: An example of the dangers of proposing an answer when the Asker hasn't given any context!
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Discussion
Asker, are we talking politics? ethics? science? polemics? escaping from a flood? ....
Get it?
the best advice to give is to go to higher ground (more elevation,
mountain, etc.) ASAP (as soon as possible).