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"Like shooting fish in a barrel" nghĩa là gì?
22 May, 2016
Bắt cá như này thì dễ quá. Photo courtesy Ryan Lackey.
'Like shooting fish in a barrel' (như bắt cá ở trong thùng) nghĩa là việc quá dễ dàng (ridiculously easy).
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“It was like shooting fish in a barrel,” he says of finding “clear double standards” in Facebook’s policy. “I would say in their defence, I can understand their dilemma because they’ve got to draw a line somewhere and they literally have to please the whole world — find a community standard that pleases the whole world,” Graham says.
In his autobiography, Ogilvy wrote: "I doubt whether any copywriter has ever had so many winners in such a short period of time. They made Ogilvy & Mather so hot that getting clients was like shooting fish in a barrel."
Exposing religious sexual hypocrisy is, as the cliché goes, like shooting fish in a barrel. If you follow the right Twitter accounts, literally every day there’s a new story of religious conservative leaders philandering, downloading illegal pornography, cruising for gay sex on the down low, or, by far worst of all, sexually abusing minors or other vulnerable people.
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