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What does it mean “to have claim over something”?



The Next CEO of Stack Overflow“From here, to there” quote meaningWhat does it mean to say, “It's only who knows when I will respond”What does “too profound to be understood” mean?Does “make something of a meal out of [something]” mean essentially “make a meal of [something]”?What does “then” mean in this context?what does 'balls on a plate ' mean?What does drenched book mean?They want paint by numbers. What does it mean?What does get into more difficult waters mean?Why does “There was little pretense of objectivity.” mean “there is almost no objectivity”?










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This is a sentence from the book Everything I Know About Love:



I thought we had claim over each other’s twenties before we’d inevitably have to give the other one up.










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  • It essentially is referring to a legal claim, as in ownership. It's being metaphoric or maybe hyperbolic. It's suggesting that they would own each other's 20's, that throughout their ages 20 through 29, they'd have each other.

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This is a sentence from the book Everything I Know About Love:



I thought we had claim over each other’s twenties before we’d inevitably have to give the other one up.










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  • It essentially is referring to a legal claim, as in ownership. It's being metaphoric or maybe hyperbolic. It's suggesting that they would own each other's 20's, that throughout their ages 20 through 29, they'd have each other.

    – Benjamin Harman
    1 hour ago













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I thought we had claim over each other’s twenties before we’d inevitably have to give the other one up.










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  • It essentially is referring to a legal claim, as in ownership. It's being metaphoric or maybe hyperbolic. It's suggesting that they would own each other's 20's, that throughout their ages 20 through 29, they'd have each other.

    – Benjamin Harman
    1 hour ago

















  • It essentially is referring to a legal claim, as in ownership. It's being metaphoric or maybe hyperbolic. It's suggesting that they would own each other's 20's, that throughout their ages 20 through 29, they'd have each other.

    – Benjamin Harman
    1 hour ago
















It essentially is referring to a legal claim, as in ownership. It's being metaphoric or maybe hyperbolic. It's suggesting that they would own each other's 20's, that throughout their ages 20 through 29, they'd have each other.

– Benjamin Harman
1 hour ago





It essentially is referring to a legal claim, as in ownership. It's being metaphoric or maybe hyperbolic. It's suggesting that they would own each other's 20's, that throughout their ages 20 through 29, they'd have each other.

– Benjamin Harman
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