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"The penny dropped" nghĩa là gì?
19 Apr, 2020
Photo by: Michael Longmire on Unsplash
"The penny dropped" = đồng xu rơi xuống -> nghĩa là cuối cùng cũng hiểu, nhận ra vấn đề.
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The penny dropped one day when I was giving them a break, and I gave them bowls of fruit, grapes and strawberries. I was on the phone at the same time, trying to do everything, when I heard this strange sound behind me. I turned around and Naoise, who’s one, was choking (nghẹn). His eyes were rolling, and his face was turning red and purple.
“All I could think of on my way home from another busy shift was, what can I do to help my fellow colleagues, to boost their spirits and to help morale (tinh thần) across the hospital,” she said. Then the penny dropped. As an avid rugby fan, Ms Mithcell decided to reach out to Irish rugby players on Instagram to see if they would have a moment to send her on a video of support for her colleagues.
In these exceptional times you cannot juggle everything, he said. "At the beginning when the schools closed, I put myself under pressure (áp lực). I didn't know what to do. I had no time for myself nor the kids. "Then the penny dropped. I stopped working and since then it's going a lot better," he said.
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