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Movo Posted 8 years ago
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Is this sentence natural?

Hi,

"Things haven't come to this overnight that now you expect them all to get sorted out in a day's work"
Thank you.

  

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It doesn't make sense to me. "... that now you expect them all to get sorted out in a day's work" makes sense, but the first part doesn't.

— GPY

  • It doesn't make sense to me.
  • "...
  • that now you expect them all to get sorted out in a day's work" makes sense, but the first part doesn't.
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It doesn't make sense to me. "... that now you expect them all to get sorted out in a day's work" makes sense, but the first part doesn't.

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American style:

We didn't get into this mess overnight, so you can't expect us to fix it in a single day.

CJ

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