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ACT Aspire English: Recognizing Colloquial Phrases 1 Views
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gone long
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- 00:03
Okay Ct english s spire Er's That's colin You were
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on six to twelve of this tech music industry diatribe
- 00:11
thinking here Days of going to the record store to
- 00:14
buy an album are gone long So gun long What
- 00:20
does that mean All right let's go down to paragraph
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- 00:22
three and let's see where it goes like a quarterback
- 00:26
yelling was receiver Well the phrase long gone means that
- 00:31
something has been gone for a long time New sometimes
- 00:35
idiomatic expressions actually makes sense Our sense is saying that
- 00:39
the days of buying albums in record stores are over
- 00:43
but gone long because they give it to you is
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a turnaround version of long gone Yeah close but no
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banana It's like he read it in a mirror in
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a time warp or something because it doesn't exist the
- 00:56
same way that music stores don't exist anymore Thank you
- 00:59
Amazon and the internet Yeah all right Well if we
- 01:02
say that the days of going to the record store
- 01:05
are gone for a long time it sounds like those
- 01:09
days might come back You know like a white walker
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Something you try ebay Even if you're looking for old
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albums and finally to save that the days of going
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to the record store are lost like d would have
- 01:21
you do Well it doesn't convey what the sentence is
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aiming for a cz effectively as a nice little idiomatic
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expression I was in long gone So the answer is 00:01:31.335 --> [endTime] c on uh question is gone too long
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