A Christmas Carol Flashcards
(18 cards)
Oh he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone Scrooge!
A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
All adjective associated with hands and grasping onto something tightly. Shows Scrooge holding tightly onto his money
Hard and sharp as a flint
Vleh
Solitary as an oyster
Bleh
Bah! Humbug!
Hdh
What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough
What reason do you have to be ((grumpy))? You’re rich enough
Bdhx
I can’t afford to make idle people merry
Dd
Are there no prisons
S
If they would rather die
They had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
Malfus
I wear the chain I forged in life
D
A solitary child neglected by his friends
X
Father is so much kinder than he used to be
D
The happiness he gives, is quite great as if it cost a fortune
S
Another idol has displaced me
D
I see a vacant seat
E
I give you Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast
D
The whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and with misery
W
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both and all of their degree
S
He frightened everyone away from us when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead
D
