When Dill arrives in
Maycomb, much toand 's delight, he brags a little bit.His father is the president of the L&N
Railroad, and Dill is a big boy now with real, belted short pants rather than shorts that button
to his shirt, and he claims that he got to help the engineer on the train.Jem responds to him
with an , saying, "'In a pig's ear you did [...].'"An idiom is a
phrase that means something which cannot be deduced from the individual words it contains.What
Jem means is that he does not believe Dill actually got to help the train's engineer; he thinks
Dill is lying to...
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