Hello everyone!
Today’s comic is Hi & Lois featuring baby
Trixie.
COMIC BREAKDOWN
“Uh oh, Trixie, you may be running a temperature.” – Lois
(Mother)
“That’s impossible!
I can’t even walk yet.” – Trixie thinking
to herself
Running a
temperature? What does it have to do
with walking?
The expression “running a temperature” does not literally
have anything to do with the action of running or walking. It means that someone has or is developing a
fever.
A fever is when one has a higher than average body
temperature. This means that Trixie is
getting sick and her temperature is higher than normal.
Because Trixie is a baby she takes the meaning of “running
a temperature” to be literal and is therefore confused as to what her mother is
saying. Trixie understands that she is
sick but does not realize her mother just used a popular expression to describe
when one is sick with a high temperature, a fever.
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