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1 caer como moscas
to drop like flies* * ** * *(v.) = drop like + fliesEx. Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.* * *(v.) = drop like + fliesEx: Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.
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2 caer como chinches
* * *(v.) = drop like + fliesEx. Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.* * *(v.) = drop like + fliesEx: Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.
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3 marcar la diferencia
(v.) = make + the difference, make + a difference, spell + the differenceEx. Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.Ex. If that cannot be determined, it hardly makes a difference which you use as main entry.Ex. We are all aware of the nature of the threshold on which the catalog -- that often maligned instrument that spells the difference between the library as a chaotic warehouse of recorded artifacts and a coherent collection of information organized for efficient access -- is poised.* * *(v.) = make + the difference, make + a difference, spell + the differenceEx: Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.
Ex: If that cannot be determined, it hardly makes a difference which you use as main entry.Ex: We are all aware of the nature of the threshold on which the catalog -- that often maligned instrument that spells the difference between the library as a chaotic warehouse of recorded artifacts and a coherent collection of information organized for efficient access -- is poised. -
4 oficina de correos
(n.) = post officeEx. Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.* * *(n.) = post officeEx: Rural post offices are dropping like flies, taking with them village shops for whom the postal business made the difference between life and death.
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