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Hello, everyone
Could you help me with a two questions about the movie "Nine Lives"?
A business man , owner of a company, is about to inaugurate the tallest building in North America. Then this follows:
(two employees)
Employee 1: I already talked to you about this. We are 100 feet taller than Chicago's tower
2: I know that's the projection. but that's printed to scale. Chicago is beating us by 60
1: Am I missing something here?
2: There is too much steel in their roof.
1: So?
2: So that's rated for 760 tons, and there is nothing on it. If they laid that much steel, they are not done.
What do "printed to scale", "rated for 760 tons" mean? "Rated for"?
2) What does "I can't pry him away from the Board" mean? And why is "B" in "board" capitalized"?
3) In the same movie, a man's daughter wants a cat, but he hates cats, so a friend suggests this: Take a look at .Tashirojima, Cat Island. Put her up there with a nanny"
What does "put her up there" mean? why "up"
Thank you very much!
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Although I haven't seen the movie I think I more or less understand what's going on.
So, usually when using "printed to scale" they would be talking about how on paper the building is 10 inches (this is an example) but the actual building itself would be 100 feet. They use a ratio like 10:100, so that would mean that every 10 inches on paper would be 100 feet in real life. In this situation their scale they were using planned to have the building 100 feet taller than the Chicago tower, but in reality it wasn't because they messed up the scale (someone correct me if I'm wrong, please).
As for the "rated for 760 tons" they mean that the their roof can handle 760 tons of weight "can handle" being the same as "rated for." They aren't using all the weight they can, so they must be building more.
"I can't pry him away from the Board." Board is capitalized because it refers to a group of people who make important decisions in a business. Saying they "can't pry him away from the Board" means that he is really involved with that group of people and they can't seem to grab his attention.
When they say "Put her up there with a nanny" they are joking by saying that she go to the Cat Island with someone to take care of her. This is of course metaphorical and they do not actually mean it. I can't really explain why they use "up." For example, someone might jokingly talk about someone moving in with a strict relative, "put her up there with her aunt."
I hope this helps:)
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