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christina_nguyen
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:06 am Post subject: Odd Jobs??? |
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"For years, [George Orwell] struggled to support himself with various odd jobs....Eventually working as shopkeeper, correspondent, teacher, editor, and radio producer, Orwell tended to empathize with the disenfranchised of society."
Why are those jobs ODD??? |
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dabro
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:01 am Post subject: |
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Hello, Christina.
"Odd jobs" is a collocation (chunk) meaning varied but not necessarily "odd" (unusual)..
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NoLeafClover
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:53 am Post subject: |
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odd means occasional, irregular
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christina_nguyen
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| NoLeafClover wrote: |
| odd means occasional, irregular |
why irregular? |
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NoLeafClover
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Well. I mean irregular as one not following schedule, like "be irregular in school attendance"
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christina_nguyen
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:40 am Post subject: |
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I see. Thanks for clarifying, NoLeafClover. 
No-Leaf Clover <---- that's interesting |
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