Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Arms"

A: Mr. Wonka is shaking hands with people. He shakes their hands very hard. If you shake hands with Mr. Wonka, it feels like your shoulder is going to be removed from your body.

A: Yeah - a really big tight cuddle

A: It means her arms are stretched out to both sides.

A: His arms are only big in size, but they dont look nice. A word that people more commonly used is "defined" when talking about muscles.

A: It means to put your arms like this

A: 3.Do you want me to carry you in my arms?
4. Let me hug/hold you.

Hold the baby gently.

A: To be up in arms over something is to be very angry about it, maybe even ready to fight. Here are a couple examples - I think any other use of this phrase would follow the same pattern.

The fans were up in arms over the referee's decision.

The politicians were up in arms over the proposed tax bill.

etc

A: This isn't used normally, but in video games and movies you may hear people say it. It means to get your weapons and get ready to fight!

A: Not quite. Both are past tense, but the implied meaning is different. "I saw that..." implies that you didn't see it happen. You became aware that you were already tied up. "I saw..." implies someone describing a past event where they saw their arms and legs being tied up.

"I don't remember anything at all. When I woke up, I saw that my arms and legs were tied up."

"It was like a dream. I saw my arms and legs being tied up, but I couldn't move to fight back."

A: Arms is "a combat branch of the military service, as the infantry, cavalry, or field artillery." It is the fight.

Weapons are what they use in the fight.

A: They mean the same thing, however, "folded" sounds less aggressive, less angry, than "crossed", but only for a more poetic writing.

A: Small arms are guns that are small in size but it doesn't mean that they're weak.

Light weapons could be weapons that don't weigh much.

A: He walked swinging his arms. - he was swinging his arms on purpose.
He walked with his arms swinging. - his arms were swinging subconsciously.
Both are natural it just depends on the context.

A: The difference is that the act of crossing is done, and now his arms are in a state of being crossed. The act of swinging is continuing. “With his arms swung” makes it sound like he swung his arms once and now is done with it. It also makes it sound like his arms are in a state of “being swung,” but this doesn’t really make sense, because arms are the same before and after they have been swung.

Another example:

He lay down with his eyes closed. -> The act of closing is done, and now his eyes are in a state of being closed.

He lay down with his eyes closing. -> the act of closing isn’t done. He is still in the middle of closing his eyes.

A: Я бы сказал "A stroke almost never results in paralysis of both arms"

A: The second "I" is not necessary... Otherwise perfect!
--> " I sat down and used my arms as a pillow to rest a little on the desk."

I think most people would say something like...
--> "I put/laid my head down on the desk and took a little nap."

Hope this helps!

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A: It cost him an arm and a leg.

A: Joe: Though your arms and legs are surprisingly thin, your waist still sticks out.
("limbs" is also fine)

Tom: You're right. I wonder why.

Joe: Why don't you do sit-ups?

("Should you try to do sit-ups?" sounds a bit unnatural.)

A: It is sometimes ok to have two ing verbs (e.g. I'm considering moving to America), but in this case with "keep," we use "keep" in the infinitive so,

Why do you keep moving your arms?

A: I would use the word rotate instead of turn. You "turn" your body, you "rotate" your arms.