Subj : smelled like horse
To   : alexander koryagin
From : Dallas Hinton
Date : Fri Mar 02 2018 18:00:57

Hi alexander -- on Jul 27 2012 at 08:42, you wrote:

ak> In Golden's "Arthas: Rise of the Lich King" I read:

ak> [Arthas was indeed sweaty and knew he smelled like horse.]

ak> Why on earth it is not "smelled like a horse"? ;-)

Apart from the fact that it's fantasy fiction and therefore breaks many rules 
with impunity, I think this a way of generalizing a thing.

In other words, "horse" is equivalent to "perfume". We could say "smelled like 
skunk", "smelled like manure", "smelled like perfume", and so on.

Follow up: Mark is right, too! :-)

Cheers... Dallas

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