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Oct 2024
10m 26s

761 - Save these idioms for a rainy day

Michael DiGiacomo Happy English
About this episode
Fall is here, and that means rainy days and wind, apples and nuts, and of course, leaves. . And we're diving into a whole bunch of them inspired by fall. Perfect timing, right? The leaves are changing. There's a chill in the air. We’re going to leaf through a bunch of idioms that have those fall items and see how we can use them in everyday conversational English. 

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