Even fearsome hunters like piranhas are reduced to scavenging
for scraps. Of all the Amazon’s fish, these have the most notorious reputation.
They could strip a chicken to bone in seconds if they were not careless enough to
fall in. |
Points to Note:
1. To strip to bone = to eat all = to finish
The hungry lions stripped the dead deer to the bone; nothing was left from the flesh.
The ants will strip to bone their prey.
The poor people are stripped to bone. Taxes have reduced them to beggars.
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2. If + subject + past tense, subject + would/could + verb
If I were you, I would marry her.
If she knew the details, she would decide well.
If you had him beside, you would relax.
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3. New words
Piranha = a fish that eats flesh
To scavenge = to eat anything one can fine
Scrap = a piece of food