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I found this sentence reading. But I didn't get the meaning. Could you explain it to me?
The sentence is:
It takes a bigger man to walk away from a fight than it does to stay and fight
It takes what? And it takes more or less? Because we have "than" so more than or less than ... I need an explanation because it seems like something is missing in this sentence. Thank you.
14"Bigger" here is also a turn-of-phrase. It means (as SarahT hinted at) "better man", not a physically bigger man. In fact, the original saying I've heard is "It takes a big man to fight, but it takes a bigger man to walk away from a fight". Here it's almost a pun, because "big" is being used in both senses. – BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft – 2020-04-21T22:11:08.870