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What does this metaphor mean in the catcher in the rye?? HELP?
-"I certainly began to feel like a prize horse's ***, though, sitting there all by myself."
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- Anonymous7 years ago
"I began to feel like a stupid person"; "I began to feel embarrassed." The idiom "horse's a.s.s" (that is, the rear part of a horse) means a stupid person. "Prize," in this case, is an adjective, meaning "an excellent example of" something.
So he "feels like a very, very stupid person".
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