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Rex Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

In season or out

0 00Showers of welder's sparks gust through the night sky above Moscow's frozen city centre. Glass and steel palaces of business and leisure gleam like mirages in the gloom.02br
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00Out in the park at Tsaritsyno, where a real palace has stood famously unfinished for centuries since Catherine the Great snubbed its design, modern metal roof frames top the elegant walls. 02br
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00This is a city awash with money rebuilding itself after decades of communist rule, and the boom shows no sign of abating, in season or out. 02br
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00Encouraged by Yury Luzhkov, city mayor since 1992, it is a boom which some fear is sweeping away the city's rich architectural heritage to make way for the new.02br
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00What is the meaning of the words '' in season or out' ? I can't fathom it. Could you plese tell me the meaning of it?02br
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0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00This is a city awash with money rebuilding itself after decades of communist rule, and the boom shows no sign of abating, 01i 00in season or out02i 00. 02font 02br 02br 00Apples grow in the summer, and are picked in the Fall season. Thus, when they are available, they are said to be 'in season'.

— Clive

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00This is a city awash with money rebuilding itself after decades of communist rule, and the boom shows no sign of abating, 01i 00in season or out02i 00.
  • 02font 02br 02br 00Apples grow in the summer, and are picked in the Fall season.
  • Thus, when they are available, they are said to be 'in season'.
  • In the winter, they are 'out of season'.
  • Figuratively, the terms 'in season' and out of season' are used for things that 'go in a cycle'.
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0Hi,02br
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01font00This is a city awash with money rebuilding itself after decades of communist rule, and the boom shows no sign of abating, 01i00in season or out02i00. 02font02br
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00Apples grow in the summer, and are picked in the Fall season. Thus, when they are available, they are said
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I would suggest that the expression means "in spite of the weather". Have you ever been to Russia during the winter? I believe the workers who continue to work outside in the Russian winter are worthy of astonishment. That being said, I concur with the first response, the expression is not used in the most straightforward fashion.

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