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Thu 24 Feb, 2011 02:58 am
I dug the heels of my palms into my eyes and doubled over.
I know the sentence was decribing an act by hands. But I don't understand the act in my iamignation. Who can explain the act in simple words to me?
@Nancy88,
If you turn your hands up and look at the palms of your hands where they join the wrist - this is called the "heels of your palms", a bit like the heel of your foot. And to dig the heels of your palms into your eyes is really to rub them with that part of your hands.
@WendyLou,
Where did that little red mark come from?
@Miller,
See, at the bottom of Nancy's post,
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