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Sean's Study Page: Vocabulary Spot: All Groups, Fixed Expressions - Home & Dry
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Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Vocabulary Spot: All Groups, Fixed Expressions - Home and Dry. Home and dry -. Is an informal expression meaning safe or successfully achieving your goal. There is also a variation used in Australia and New Zealand - home and hosed. Example: Just one more exam to go, once we've finished the Listening, we'll be home and dry. Latest Govt Bank Jobs Recruitment Notification 2016. It was helpful and will really help me in building my new blog traffic and increasing my readers per day.
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Sean's Study Page: Vocabulary Spot: All Groups, The Dog Days (of Summer)
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Friday, 10 July 2015. Vocabulary Spot: All Groups, The Dog Days (of Summer). The term "Dog Days" refers to hot, sultry summer weather - alluding to the period between early July and early September when Sirius (the Dog Star) rises and sets with the sun. The ancient Romans called this phenomenon dies caniculares. Which was translated as "dog days"in the first half of the 1500s. The phrase can also be used to describe a period of stagnation e.g. when business is slow. For more on the origin of Dog Days.
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Sean's Study Page: August 2015
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Sunday, 9 August 2015. Language, Listening and Film: The Conversation (1974). Although winning the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and being nominated for 3 Academy Awards, Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation. Was somewhat overshadowed by the director's other release that year - The Godfather Part II. However, The Conversation. Has endured as a bona fide classic and one of the best American films ever made. He'd kill us if he got the chance. Turns out to be very different from He'd kill us.
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Sean's Study Page: Language, Listening and Film: The Conversation (1974)
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Sunday, 9 August 2015. Language, Listening and Film: The Conversation (1974). Although winning the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and being nominated for 3 Academy Awards, Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation. Was somewhat overshadowed by the director's other release that year - The Godfather Part II. However, The Conversation. Has endured as a bona fide classic and one of the best American films ever made. He'd kill us if he got the chance. Turns out to be very different from He'd kill us.
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Sean's Study Page: July 2015
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Friday, 10 July 2015. Vocabulary Spot: All Groups, The Dog Days (of Summer). The term "Dog Days" refers to hot, sultry summer weather - alluding to the period between early July and early September when Sirius (the Dog Star) rises and sets with the sun. The ancient Romans called this phenomenon dies caniculares. Which was translated as "dog days"in the first half of the 1500s. The phrase can also be used to describe a period of stagnation e.g. when business is slow. For more on the origin of Dog Days.
