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144 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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144 months ago

   wrote:

Bogged down/blinded(by the cards so as to win) like a mole

My comment:

infognato=to get bogged down/ sink deeply; talpa=a mole. I think it is figurative here. We speak of being as blind as a mole, so maybe here you have to turn it round in this sense

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144 months ago

   wrote:

I'm wondering if the expression means that he is blinded to what' s going on (the losing, because he keeps on playing, anyway).

144 months ago

   wrote:

that is the sense-oblivious to the fact that he is losing; intent on playing till he wins(?); heedless/careless/regardless/maybe even nonchalant of having lost; keeps at the game hoping to make a win/win back all he has lost;

144 months ago

   wrote:

that is the sense-oblivious to the fact that he is losing; intent on playing till he wins(?); heedless/careless/regardless/maybe even nonchalant of having lost; keeps at the game hoping to make a win/win back all he has lost;

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144 months ago

Josephine Cassar   wrote:

Bogged down/blinded(by the cards so as to win) like a mole

My comment:

infognato=to get bogged down/ sink deeply; talpa=a mole. I think it is figurative here. We speak of being as blind as a mole, so maybe here you have to turn it round in this sense

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