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What does "the flap-handled fridge" mean?
The air shimmered with warmth. The table, large, wooden, scarred, was laid
at one end with a bleached cotton cloth, a pile of bowls, a fistful of spoons.
All the objects in the room looked like cartoons of themselves: the flap-handled
fridge, the brown piano grinning, the dresser where plates leaned
and cups hung.
Does it mean: the fridge that its handle is hung?
1 Answer
- busterwasmycatLv 72 weeks agoFavourite answer
Older fridges had a latch that was released by pulling on a flap, a metal plate in the door. Newer fridges do not have latches. They simply have a handle that you pull and the door opens. A latched door will not open no matter how much you pull on the door if you do not release the latch. This was a main problem with fridges and kids getting trapped inside (they could not activate the latch, so slowly suffocated).
I haven't seen a flap-handled fridge in years. They were all flap-handled when I was young. Basically, the flap is a sort of doorknob in function. It is a lever.