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Tue 11 Dec, 2012 04:44 am
Before getting involved with Hollywood, he had worked for many years creating false noses and glass eyes for wounded soldiers. In fact even after he had become a lion in the entertainment industry, this aspect of his early professional life was always the one that had most gratified him. To him, producers were just a bunch of barracudas out to take your lunch.
What does the author mean by saying that "producers were just a bunch of barracudas out to take your lunch."?
Barracudas are voracious fish that are proverbial for their savagery. There is, then, another definition for barracuda, which the Merriam-Webster dictionary renders as: one that uses aggressive, selfish, and sometimes unethical methods to obtain a goal especially in business. The author is using barracuda in that sense. The producers are unethical businessmen who are out to take one's livelihood (lunch).
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