Reading this article, there is a line saying,
The gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association, has for years systematically blocked plans to modernize the agency’s paper-based weapons-tracing system with a searchable database. As a result, records of gun sales going back decades are stored in boxes stacked seven high, waiting to be processed, against every wall.
When you look at the picture of the boxes of the records stacked against the wall, it is eight-high.
Is this kind of a metaphor how tall they(the paper of records of gun purchases) are against the wall? Or is there another meaning?
(Googling by "seven high meaning" didn't produce anything).
Best Answer
No. It may be that the person who wrote that didn't count the exact height, or the one stack in the image doesn't tell the whole truth.
If you look at the stack next to the stack in the picture, it's only 6 boxes high. Someone may have moved a box from one stack to another to get at the one underneath it. There's also a 2 box high stack on the end. I think it is very likely that the majority of the stacks are 7 boxes high.
Or perhaps an editor who used a different photo than the one the journalist was looking at (or saw in person).