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CathyTT Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

about the color "red"

The colors always make me puzzled.This time I came across "in the read",and I don't know it's meaning.Please help me,thank you very much!!!
  

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It has several possible meanings and we can't tell you which you want without knowing the context. Please quote the entire sentence in future. All your classmates seem to do the same thing.

— Nona the brit

  • It has several possible meanings and we can't tell you which you want without knowing the context.
  • Please quote the entire sentence in future.
  • All your classmates seem to do the same thing.
  • We like having you all visit and want to help you with your English but you all like to make it very difficult for us.
  • Perhaps you could mention this to the others and ask everyone to 1) Make sure you are not all coming on here and asking the same question over and over again (for example, about breakfast).
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It has several possible meanings and we can't tell you which you want without knowing the context. Please quote the entire sentence in future.

All your classmates seem to do the same thing. We like having you all visit and want to help you with your English but you all like to make it very difficult for us. Perhaps you could mention this to the others and ask everyone to

1) Make
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Sometimes "in the red" means in debt, owing money one doesn't have. Does this make sense in the context?
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NefSometimes "in the red" means in debt, owing money one doesn't have. Does this make sense in the context?
I'll add this footnote. When accountants still kept their books by hand, red ink was used to show a deficit. Hence the terms "in the red" and "out of the red".
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