Hello everyone,
I hope you get me a good member amongst you in such a great forum.
I lost my temper with these two difficult-to-absorb issues, and i am urgently in great need for your help (I hope I'm clear enough):
1. I cannot justify the collocation in "opened to review" in the sentence i found in Longman dictionary under the headword "review": "The film opened to rave reviews". I'm completely comfortable with saying "The film got excellent reviews", which i suppose gives the same meaning, but ,for god sake, how anything opens to a review? what is the mindset of selecting such words together? I think of it as saying "the car eats petrol"; inappropriate!
<< second question needs its own thread
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I hope you get me a good member amongst you in such a great forum.
I lost my temper with these two difficult-to-absorb issues, and i am urgently in great need for your help (I hope I'm clear enough):
1. I cannot justify the collocation in "opened to review" in the sentence i found in Longman dictionary under the headword "review": "The film opened to rave reviews". I'm completely comfortable with saying "The film got excellent reviews", which i suppose gives the same meaning, but ,for god sake, how anything opens to a review? what is the mindset of selecting such words together? I think of it as saying "the car eats petrol"; inappropriate!
<< second question needs its own thread
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