Time ⌚

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Вопрос American English Ответ American English
A ... is a period of quiet or calm in a longer period of activity or excitement.
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lull
A ... is a period of two weeks. 🇬🇧
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fortnight (BRYT)
I hope to be back in a fortnight
throughout the day and night
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round-the-clock
Fire crews were working round the clock to bring the huge blazes under control.
the date when something is ... to be paid
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due date
To avoid paying interest, pay in full by the due date every month.
the date on which, according to medical calculations, a pregnant woman is most likely to give birth
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due date
The due date for the baby is Aug. 14.
... is the middle part of the day, from late morning to early afternoon.
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midday
eople were beginning to tire in the midday heat
... is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day.
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midday
It's eight minutes after midday
the middle day of the working week, usually Wednesday
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hump day
If you say that something happens in the ... of time, you are emphasizing that it happens at the last possible moment.
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in the nick of time/ just in time
News of interest cuts came in the nick of time for borrowers.
A ... of time is a period that is long enough for a situation to change or for people to have a different opinion about it.
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lapse
... the restoration of diplomatic relations after a lapse of 24 years
Journalists sometimes use ...... to refer to a crisis or event which is likely to decide finally what is going to happen in a conflict or situation.
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high noon
Also means the same as noon
He insisted that a defeat yesterday would not have been high noon for his leadership.
It can refer either to distance or time. It means that an object or event goes as ... in distance or time as some other object or event, which is used as a reference point.
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as far back as
1. This restaurant was opened as far back as 1920 2. The house was located as far back [in the woods] as the river.
You use at ...... in order to indicate that something must happen at or before a particular time and not after that time.
emphasis
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at the latest
She should be back by ten o'clock at the latest.
You use ... followed by a number to say how old someone is.
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aged
1. Alan has two children, aged eleven and nine 2. He died aged 60
Until a very late hour of the night or very early hour of the morning.
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until/till all hours
Johnny keeps taking the car and staying out till all hours, and I just don't know what to do anymore!
A ... year is a year which has 366 days. The extra day is the 29th February. There is a... year every four years.
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leap year
If something happens in the ..., it happens soon after midnight, in the very early morning.
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small hours
They were arrested in the small hours of Saturday morning

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