2016年6月24日 星期五

saving grace, turn on, council estate

"They talk about council estates as though they’re slums."
The neglected suddenly discovered they could use their EU referendum…
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“The European Union was the political saving grace of the United Kingdom – and now it's gone.”


council estate
noun
BRITISH
  1. an area of houses built and rented out to tenants by a local council.


turn on 1

1Suddenly attack physically or verbally:he turned on her with cold savagery
2Have as the main topic or point of interest:for most businessmen, the central questions will turn on taxation



saving grace 

Pronunciation:


NOUN

[MASS NOUN]
1The redeeming grace of God:the sudden intervention of God’s saving grace
1.1[COUNT NOUN] A redeeming quality or characteristic:The car is hideously noisy with the hood up. Its one saving grace is that it is watertight

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