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What was as thick as flies around a sorghum mill in Where the Fern Grows?
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What does as thick as flies around a sorghum mill means?
It's a simile meaning "in great abundance". A sorghum mill is a place where sorghum is made - a syrupy type of sweetener made from the sorghum plant. As flies are generally attracted to sweet, sugary substances, you can imagine how many flies would be hanging around a sorghum mill. Hence the expression.
What does as thick as flies around a sorghum mill mean?
Sorghum is a genus of grasses, one of which is raised for grain, and others of which are used to feed animals. A sorghum mill is a building that refines raw sorghum grain into other products such as granular sugar or sorghum juice.The author of this simile presents the sorghum mill as a place where a large quantity of "flies" might congregate to feed on the glucose-rich plant and reproduce. Flies are insects of the order Diptera that possess a pair of wings and a pair of hind wings on the thorax.The word "thick" implies both a large quantity of flies and heightened activity due to the attractiveness of the sorghum. The author might imply that the comparable event is equally ravenous, highly populated, or attractive. However, without the context of the simile any further speculation would be hogwash. In fact, this whole answer might be hogwash.
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