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(T. Mukund, Pondicherry)

This is what children sometimes do at the zoo when they find the animal sound asleep inside the cage. To wake up the animal and get its attention, the kids often pick up a stick and keep hitting the cage with it. How does the sleeping animal react to this unwelcome rattling? It usually gets annoyed or angry. When you rattle someone’s cage, you are deliberately trying to get the person annoyed or angry. You are attempting to get the individual’s attention.

*Shyamala tried to rattle Harish’s cage by asking him questions about his former girl friend.

S. UPENDRAN

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