"Greatest thing since indoor plumbing" nghĩa là gì?


"Greatest thing since indoor plumbing" = điều tuyệt vời nhất kể từ hệ thống ống nước trong nhà -> nghĩa là phát minh/sản phẩm tốt nhất, hữu dụng trong khoảng thời gian dài.
 
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Through this hodge-podge of projects, MONUM aspires (khao khát) do more than just fill potholes (ổ gà) and make apps. If the mechanics are going to become the greatest thing since indoor plumbing or  “Maybe Even Rescue Democracy,” as the title of a Mitchell Weiss talk at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government once put it, it will be by drawing Bostonians into a new model of civic engagement they call “peer-produced governance.”

Have said it before, will say it again ... the iPhone 8 "without" Touch ID is a looming (lù lù) catastrophe (thảm họa) ! ... Tim Cook very-likely knows this ... it's the single biggest R&D gamble Apple has made in a long, long time ... Apple made a Tech Gamble on Touch ID (under Glass), and it didn't pay off ... at least by the Intro of the iPhone 8 ... as such, IMO, only the Extremely Young and Extremely Dumb will buy-into the iPhone 8 sales pitch (that Facial Recognition / Face ID is the greatest thing since indoor plumbing) ... most will balk at the iPhone 8's price AND certainly w/o Touch ID (under Glass).

Now that summer is becoming a hazy (mơ hồ) memory, some (relatively) consistent (kiên định) peace seems to be returning to the hallowed (thiêng liên) confines (ranh giới) of the Quiet Car. Ever since Metro-North started the program back in 2011, I’ve considered it to be the greatest thing since indoor plumbing. When it functions as intended, it’s a thing of beauty, a blessed haven of peace and relaxation before and after a long day in the bauxite (bô xít) mine (mỏ). When it doesn’t, well, this grizzled railbird tends to become a Quiet Car Curmudgeon.

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