Answer by Bloke Down The Pub for Grammar from Sherlock Holmes: Count Dracula...
It's nothing to do with what the characters are trying to do, and I find it odd that you think that. Indeed the concept makes my head hurt a bit. Rather, it means that they appear in other works by...
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The characters have become synonymous with attributes or failings. We know that being a Scrooge is being mean, being like Dracula is to be a bloodsucker or parasite..'it's like putting Dracula in...
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Answer by BradC for Grammar from Sherlock Holmes: Count Dracula and Ebenezer...
"take on a life of its own" is a well-known idiom: Definition: to become very large, important, or hard to control The story took on a life of its own and began to appear on news broadcasts everywhere....
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Few fictional characters have an existence in the world elsewhere than in the original book they feature in: those characters all exist in books, comics, films, games, toys, cartoons etc. Life (and...
View ArticleAnswer by James K for Grammar from Sherlock Holmes: Count Dracula and...
To understand this consider a shorter sentence Dracula has taken on a life outside the pages of his story. The "story" here is "Dracula", a novel by Bram Stoker. But many people use "Dracula" and know...
View ArticleGrammar from Sherlock Holmes: Count Dracula and Ebenezer Scrooge come to mind
Here are two adjacent sentences from Sherlock Holmes Few fictional characters have taken on a life of their own outside the pages of their stories the way Sherlock Holmes has. Count Dracula and...
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