"Kitty-corner" nghĩa là gì?

Thằng Tèo nó lại làm trò nữa! Photo courtesy: Kurt Bauschardt

"Kitty (catty)-corner" = góc của mèo -> nằm chéo khi nhìn sang cái gì/người nào đó ở đối diện.

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The City is seeking proposals (đề xuất) from experienced engineering firms (công ty) to assess the concrete in the Maple Avenue, Church Street and Sherman Plaza parking garages and the Service Center on Asbury Avenue kitty-corner from the Civic Center.

Park and his family moved from South Korea to the United States in the summer of 1980. He grew up in a tenement (chung cư) on 80th Street kitty-corner from what was then the Leben Home, a facility to house the many patients who’d been dumped there by the city’s psychiatric wards (khoa tâm thần).

Competing gas stations catty-corner from each other having a gas price war, to see who could go the lowest in price! There was one gas station down here with regular gas at $2.07 and the one on the opposite corner had regular gas for $1.99... And the prices had just changed! I know this price drop of Oil is bad for all sorts of reasons, but the one good reason is that individuals get cheaper gas, at a time when they really need to conserve (duy trì) their funds...

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