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"Three-alarm fire" nghĩa là gì?
13 Nov, 2019
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"Three-alarm fire" hoặc "five-alarm fire" = đám cháy ba hồi báo động -> đám cháy cực lớn. Nghĩa bóng là ai đó/ điều gì đó căng thẳng/thú vị.
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A three-alarm fire broke out at the top of a building on Washington Street Thursday morning.
A man is dead after a three-alarm fire in Vancouver Tuesday night according to Vancouver Fire Rescue Service.
He described the situation with the incumbent senators (thượng nghị sĩ đương nhiệm) as "a three-alarm fire," as there is growing concern among Republicans that their party could lose control of the Senate and the White House to Democrats in the national election next year.
"... I guess I was surprised by ... more on a personal level like how she's a five-alarm fire of charisma (sức hút). Like sitting down with her and talking with her, and then I would listen to the interviews back later, and I'd be like 'Oh my God, man, ask a question. What is wrong with you?' Like you can't when you're sitting with her," he said.
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