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"In tall cotton" nghĩa là gì?
12 May, 2020
Photo by: Jared Rice on Unsplash
"In tall cotton" có từ "tall cotton" hay "high cotton" xuất phát từ cộng đồng nông dân miền nam nước mỹ trước thời nội chiến khi bông được mùa và giá cao, nên có nghĩa là ai đó làm ăn phát đạt, giàu có, thành công.
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Some people now hate hearing talk about Peak Oil. They won’t have a word of it. The so-called “fracking revolution” is supposed to solve (giải quyết) our energy problems for a long time into the future. Between the Eagle Ford play, down in Texas, and the Bakken play, up in North Dakota, the U.S. is in tall cotton, energywise.
“My wife was working at First National Bank at the time, and she was making a whopping (to lớn) $3.85 an hour. We thought we were in tall cotton — until we went to get a house.” The couple ended up building a house in Spring Valley, but construction projects slowed to the point that Wilkes said he couldn’t work enough hours in the day to stay afloat (lênh đênh, không ổn định).
Brown began by digging (đào) a lot of swimming pools and teaming up with a buddy to do residential (dân cư) utility (hữu ích) hookups. “I can remember running that backhoe for $50 an hour and thinking I was in tall cotton,” he says.
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