English term
You don't want dirt to get into the sore
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Man: I need something for my hand.
Pharmacist: Oh, how did you do that?
Man: Some guy in a car cut me off and I fell off my bike.
Have you done anything to clean the wound?
Man: Well, I washed it off with water at a nearby gas station.
Pharmacist: Did you put anything on top of that?
Man: Oh, nothing, nothing.
Pharmacist: This is an ointment ...
What you do is to squeeze the ointment out onto a Kleenex,
and then apply it to your skin. You don't want dirt to get into the sore, so you need to put a gauze pad over top.
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"You don't want" ←
What does "You don't want dirt to get into the sore" mean?
Thank you
Oct 12, 2021 09:02: Rob Grayson changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
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Don't let dirt get into the sore (as this would be harmful)
| Thank you so much, Ruth |
Canada
Life Sciences & Biomed. Specialist, PhD
Native in: French (Variant: Canadian) 
Works in: French, English, English to French, and 1 more.
avoid letting dirt into the wound
| Thank you so much, Sarah |
It's not going to do you any good if... // you need to avoid that s.t. / prevent it from happening
you don't want (s.t. to happen) / you don't want (to do this or that)
is an indirect way to suggest (instead of giving orders) that s.t. wouldn't be in your best interest / is better avoided or prevented from happening.
Reworded in a more direct/ explicit way:
You don't want dirt to get into the sore
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It's not going to do you any good if dirt gets into the sore (so you need to put a gauze pad over top.)
| Thank you so much, Daryo |
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