Except at the end of the day, we don't slide down the tail of a dinosaur.
Is "the end of the day" equivalent in meaning to the sunset in the sentence above?
The Flintstones was a TV cartoon comedy about cavemen. At the end of his working day, Fred Flintstone slid down a dinosaur's tail on his way home. At the end of his working day is not the same as the sunset.
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The Flintstones was a TV cartoon comedy about cavemen. At the end of his working day, Fred Flintstone slid down a dinosaur's tail on his way home.
At the end of his working day is not the same as the sunset.
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tkacka15Except at the end of the day, we don't slide down the tail of a dinosaur.
Is "the end of the day" equivalent in meaning to the sunset in the sentence above?
I had to search for that. It turns out it is a reference to the intro to the American TV prime-time cartoon show of the early 1960s "The Flintstones", set in some imagin