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jasonlulu_2000
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 Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: one difficult sentence |
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1 a survey of Tokyo newspapers on Friday appeared to show the congress had its work cut out.
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cgage2
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I assume that you are confused by the meaning of this sentence.
"has its work cut out" is an expression that means that the work is there and ready to be worked on. It does not mean cut out with scissors.
It does not mean cut out as in eliminated |
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