What’s the meaning of “split wide open”
English Language & Usage Asked by Nastaran Zendehboudi on December 7, 2020
What’s the meaning of “split wide open”??
I’m confused and I found it in this sentence: “everything I knew was split wide open”
Source (UCLA magazine)
“The world cracked down the middle,” she wrote later in a preface to a special edition of the book, “and everything I knew was split wide open. …
One Answer
If you split a rock or a log or a fruit open, you can see what is inside.
If you split something wide open then the inside is revealed even more.
The author is using a metaphor. Probably it means that the knowledge the person had, was broken into fragments. What they had always believed to be reality turned out not to be true.
Answered by chasly - supports Monica on December 7, 2020
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