I thought I'd left the stove on. What doét it mean
A: You remember your revolver?
B: Oh, knew I'd forgotten something. I thought I'd left the stove on
(From SHERLOCK HOLMES 2009)
Did B mean he left the revolver on the stove?

Question

I thought I'd left the stove on. What doét it mean
A: You remember your revolver? 
B: Oh, knew I'd forgotten something.  I thought I'd left the stove on
(From SHERLOCK HOLMES 2009)
Did B mean he left the revolver on the stove?

Answer

Hi, Daisy!
Nope, it means that the speaker B thought he had forgotten to switch off the stove (had left the stove on-left it heating/operating), but he was wrong, as he realized (after being asked by A ) that he had forgotten to take his revolver with him.
So, it was bringing his revolver ( not switching off the stove) that he actually had forgotten.

Hope it'll help.

Answer

No, it means that A reckons far more important not to leave behind a revolver than a stove on. Therefore A and B are in all likelihood embarking theirselves on a perilous mission.

Answer

He knew that he had forgotten something, but he wasn't sure what it was that he had forgotten.

So he thought: "Maybe what I forgot was to turn off the stove."

But it was the revolver, instead.

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