Re: Whups! [Re: Weekly Vocab 7]

Mark Reed palsalge:
>> > They don't sell much in an upper room, but it must be cheap to rent.
>> I'm assuming that "they don't sell much in an upper room" is
>> akin to "they don't have much in the way of upper rooms"?
>
>As opposed to a literal interpretation where they're in the upper
>room selling stuff, which doesn't make much sense to me in conjunction
>with the renting, but I guess it could be business renting . . .
>
>h-Mark
I meant that they are selling in an upper room, which must get little in
the way of business, and for that reason it's cheaper for them to rent the
room. QED.

~Wright