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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.
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∙ 9y agoIt refers to having a lot of things, like people in an area. Flies are attracted to sorghum and swarm around the place making it.
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What does thick in the head mean?
It means that you're stubborn or hardheaded. it means your a dweeb who should be taken to the institute and never seen again!
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What word means the opposite of narrow?
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What was as thick as flies around a sorghum mill in Where the Fern Grows?
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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.
What is the origin between sorghum syrup and molasses?
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What does dogs thick fur coats means?
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What is pachyderma?
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The phrase through thick and thin means?
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Thick thiqhs. well over here in NJ they do . Thick thinghs means she has a biq butt.
The greek prefix of pachy?
It means "thick"
What rhymes with stick and means fat?
Thick
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