double-possessivesphrase-meaningpoetry
I was wondering about difference between "my" and "of mine" and have found some posts that say:
"my" is definite form and "of mine" is indefinite one. So, "of mine" is the same as "one of my".
It makes sense for most usecases I've heard, but I still don't understand what "this heart of mine" means. Can you help me?
P.S. Please forgive me for mistakes in this question, I'm not an English-speaking man.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, when ballistic missile design was the cutting edge of military technology, and first the 'missile gap' and subsequently the 'space race' commanded national attention, the 'rocket scientist' was a cultural icon in the US.
(Never mind that the creative imaginations in the missile and moon programs were mostly engineers rather than scientists; to the public they were all 'scientists', heirs to the team which produced the atomic bomb.)
'Rocket science' came to symbolize arcane mathematical and technological understanding.
Rocket science itself has faded into the background these days; but it has left behind the fixed phrase
meaning "X does not require specialist knowledge; anybody can understand the principles and perform the necessary actions".
"Where's the rocket science?", then, means in this context "What technological or methodological breakthrough have you achieved which will distinguish you in the marketplace from your competitors? What have you got that they ain't got?"
When you "raise a point", you are bringing up an issue to be discussed. After someone has raised a point, you can refer to it as "the point [that has been] raised."
One possible sense of take is consider, as in "take, for example, the lowly worm." (You are not being asked to physically acquire a worm, but to think about some aspect of it.)
Thus, when you want others to examine the issue that someone brought up, you can ask them to "take the point raised".
Best Answer
It is (often) an emphatic form.
"ole" or "ol'" = "old" (so-called "eye-dialect").