The Ass The Fox And The Lion The Ass The Fox And The Lion An Ass and a Fox had become close comrades, and were constantly in each other's company. While the Ass cropped a fresh bit of greens, the Fox would devour a chicken from the neighboring farmyard or a bit of cheese filched from the dairy. One day the pair unexpectedly met a Lion. The Ass was very much frightened, but the Fox calmed his fears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNAOSFcJ2Y "I will talk to him," he said. So the Fox walked boldly up to the Lion. "Your highness," he said in ...
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The Ass The Fox And The Lion By Aesop Fairy Tales
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Hello d.c Hariri what does upon means?
Hi dear Soroosh,
Feast on / feast upon means to choose something as food and eat it while enjoying it a lot. For example, the lion feasted upon / on the ass = the lion started to eat the ass with so much pleasure.
The central theme of this short story is that never be a betrayer, especially to your friends, or you will face the consequences.
That’s right. It’s all about negative karma based on cause-and-effect relationship, which tells us that benevolence and malevolence will respectively result in positivity and negativity materialized in our own lives.
Hello Dr.Hariri, I have a question. What does sallied out here mean? ( They sallied out to forage for food together.)
Hi Armaghan,
They sallied out to forage for food together” = they ventured out / went out to look for food
sally out = venture out, go out
to forage = to hunt, look for