“He threw around a misty slipper” — meaning of “threw around”?

Will this sentence be interpreted as a child throwing the slipper and picking up the slipper then throwing it again?

Because he threw a slipper around him, it works as a parasol for him.

Boy throws tantrum on train or trains slipper (sometime) –and even spits on guy on

first trip.

Asked on March 28, 2021 in Other.
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  1. He threw around a slipper.

What is the meaning of a slipper if you pick what you want and throw it again?

Yes, most likely that is probably what it was meant to mean. What do you think it could mean? Why is he throwing a slipper all the way around. What possesses him the greatest strength? It is possible that he was able to always catch it before it landed on the ground or floor. If you only saw a slipper rolling around a baby, what would be a similar expression?

Let’s refer to this interpretation as interpretation #A.

NOTE: It is possible for there to be another interpretation but they cannot contradict each other. Is a slipper tied to a rope floating in the air? A boy could always throw a ball around his slipper to get out. What is a sort of context not normally used for teaching, yet somewhat unusual in practice? Let’s refer to this interpretation as interpretation #B.


As to the grammar that is involved in your example (with its most likely meaning), consider: “He

  1. threw around a slipper. Is it right?” The guy you have
  2. met had a slipper that he threw around. (OP’s original) There have been two witnesses. He
  3. threw around it before he went off on his own. ” ” — (usually ungrammatical for #A ; but good for #B )
  4. “He threw it around. Very nice if I had to try it.” What

is the meaning of

  • “around” in the article “Indefinitely”?

  • Or, if denoting “around” is a preposition, it is functioning as the head of the preposition phrase ‘around a slipper’ (in diction #B), and the noun phrase ‘a slipper’ is functioning as the compliment of that preposition ‘around’ (in denoting “around the slipper”).

For interpretation #A, example #3 “He threw around it” is ungrammatical when the pronoun “it” is unstressed. Though it can be grammatical if it is used in an appropriate context, one which has “it” stressed.) Note


that the grammatical explanation given here is using the framework of the 2002 reference grammar by Huddleston and Pullum et al. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, 1759.

Answered on December 20, 2021.
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Your link points to a page with a video of a child having a temper tantrum on a train. I could not watch it because (a) the site was loading too slowly and (b) I couldn’t stand listening to the child crying.

I can testify that a child “was in the middle walking aisle on a train” having a temper tantrum and lying on his back kicking his feet around. Can you help me to understand this sentence? How? What would be a hypothetical example of “threw around a slipper”?

  • Child threw his slipper like a baby. What would be cause of the first incident of throwing could have been from kicking his feet while he was on his back? The slipper likely landed in the child’s immediate vicinity. What is meant by throwing?

  • The child retrieved his slipper and threw it again, this time with his hand. What is the second throw that doesn’t have to be anywhere in particular; it could have been thrown onto the floor near himself or on the hoop.

  • What happens if you throw every now and then in the middle of the field, but spit in the backfield and hit the ground at the middle of the field? If there was only one throw, “throw around” could be considered an exaggeration.

What is the kind of scenario to which one might describe the incident with “threw around a slipper” etc.? In this Is looking at the sentence as a speech act instead of just a declaritive statement.

The meaning of throw around in this case is “to throw multiple times in an indiscriminate manner”.

What is your opinion on the recent ‘I believe you get worse and this is your personal story’?

Answered on December 22, 2021.
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Your link points to a page with a video of a child having a temper tantrum on a train. I could not watch it because (a) the site was loading too slowly and (b) I couldn’t stand listening to the child crying.

I can testify that a child “was in the middle walking aisle on a train” having a temper tantrum and lying on his back kicking his feet around. Can you help me to understand this sentence? How? What would be a hypothetical example of “threw around a slipper”?

  • Child threw his slipper like a baby. What would be cause of the first incident of throwing could have been from kicking his feet while he was on his back? The slipper likely landed in the child’s immediate vicinity. What is meant by throwing?

  • The child retrieved his slipper and threw it again, this time with his hand. What is the second throw that doesn’t have to be anywhere in particular; it could have been thrown onto the floor near himself or on the hoop.

  • What happens if you throw every now and then in the middle of the field, but spit in the backfield and hit the ground at the middle of the field? If there was only one throw, “throw around” could be considered an exaggeration.

What is the kind of scenario to which one might describe the incident with “threw around a slipper” etc.? In this Is looking at the sentence as a speech act instead of just a declaritive statement.

The meaning of throw around in this case is “to throw multiple times in an indiscriminate manner”.

What is your opinion on the recent ‘I believe you get worse and this is your personal story’?

Answered on December 22, 2021.
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Your link points to a page with a video of a child having a temper tantrum on a train. I could not watch it because (a) the site was loading too slowly and (b) I couldn’t stand listening to the child crying.

I can testify that a child “was in the middle walking aisle on a train” having a temper tantrum and lying on his back kicking his feet around. Can you help me to understand this sentence? How? What would be a hypothetical example of “threw around a slipper”?

  • Child threw his slipper like a baby. What would be cause of the first incident of throwing could have been from kicking his feet while he was on his back? The slipper likely landed in the child’s immediate vicinity. What is meant by throwing?

  • The child retrieved his slipper and threw it again, this time with his hand. What is the second throw that doesn’t have to be anywhere in particular; it could have been thrown onto the floor near himself or on the hoop.

  • What happens if you throw every now and then in the middle of the field, but spit in the backfield and hit the ground at the middle of the field? If there was only one throw, “throw around” could be considered an exaggeration.

What is the kind of scenario to which one might describe the incident with “threw around a slipper” etc.? In this Is looking at the sentence as a speech act instead of just a declaritive statement.

The meaning of throw around in this case is “to throw multiple times in an indiscriminate manner”.

What is your opinion on the recent ‘I believe you get worse and this is your personal story’?

Answered on December 22, 2021.
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Your link points to a page with a video of a child having a temper tantrum on a train. I could not watch it because (a) the site was loading too slowly and (b) I couldn’t stand listening to the child crying.

I can testify that a child “was in the middle walking aisle on a train” having a temper tantrum and lying on his back kicking his feet around. Can you help me to understand this sentence? How? What would be a hypothetical example of “threw around a slipper”?

  • Child threw his slipper like a baby. What would be cause of the first incident of throwing could have been from kicking his feet while he was on his back? The slipper likely landed in the child’s immediate vicinity. What is meant by throwing?

  • The child retrieved his slipper and threw it again, this time with his hand. What is the second throw that doesn’t have to be anywhere in particular; it could have been thrown onto the floor near himself or on the hoop.

  • What happens if you throw every now and then in the middle of the field, but spit in the backfield and hit the ground at the middle of the field? If there was only one throw, “throw around” could be considered an exaggeration.

What is the kind of scenario to which one might describe the incident with “threw around a slipper” etc.? In this Is looking at the sentence as a speech act instead of just a declaritive statement.

The meaning of throw around in this case is “to throw multiple times in an indiscriminate manner”.

What is your opinion on the recent ‘I believe you get worse and this is your personal story’?

Answered on December 23, 2021.
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