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Can someone explain to me the title of the article? This looks like weird English syntax to me.
by OwkwordGrom 5y ago
Can someone explain to me the title of the article? This looks like weird English syntax to me.
- OwkwordGrom 5y agoOr maybe I'm not used to that grammar?
- CRConrad 5y ago"An also-ran" is an idiom that means, basically, "not a top performer". As I understand it, it's originally from listings of athletics (EDIT: Or horse racing?) event results: "Winner, blah; second place, blah; third place, blah; also ran: blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and blah". The second sentence, about "recover its footing", means to stop stumbling. This is a metaphor like "get back on track", meaning to start performing better. It was most probably chosen to extend the "running" theme from the first sentence.