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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

branching out like stock boards

English answer:

lots of branching off from the main line

Added to glossary by Oliver Simões
Feb 18, 2022 15:24
2 yrs ago
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English term

branching out like stock boards

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It's about a grocer who headed to the New South in 1887:

"With Reconstruction a decade back and the railroads branching out like stock boards, Graham bet his boots on the textile industry" (Two Stringers).

I'm not sure that I understood this part. Does it mean the railroads were multiplying? Or does "stock boards" have a more specific meaning?
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4 +1 lots of branching off from the main line
2 branching out like a kind of paper board game

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lots of branching off from the main line

I assume the stock boards are where stocks are listed so lots of railway "lines" are branching off like in the graphs

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https://www.nasdaq.com/a...

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Note added at 20 mins (2022-02-18 15:45:22 GMT)
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hmm can't paste the images directly in here it seems but something like in this link
https://www.google.com/search?q=cumulative returns compariso...

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Note added at 4 days (2022-02-23 13:14:46 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped. Maybe just branching out/off in all directions. Or branching out like a tree or like lines on a graph
Peer comment(s):
neutral philgoddard : We know it means branching off because it says so, but I'm not sure if this is what stock boards means.
31 mins
I never said it had anything to do with share prices! I'm talking about the lines in the charts how they branch off. It's a simile after all! I don't see how you see animal pens fitting the context?
agree AllegroTrans : Well, branching out in general/multiplying // no, the simile is likely to get lost in translatiion as they say
1 hr
Many thanks:-). Yes, I don't think "stock boards" from 1887 is necessary as a simile
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you, Yvonne. Indeed, the simile was lost in translation. :-)"
2 days 4 hrs

branching out like a kind of paper board game

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