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Mr. Tom Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Repair to: idiom

Hi

Could you please tell me how often native speakers use the idiom "repair to"?

Thanks,

Tom



repair to some place

to move oneself to some place. I will repair to my room until the crisis is over. She repaired to a safe place for the duration of the storm.









  

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I don't think I ever use it in conversation. It's conceivable that I might on rare occasions use it in writing. Though familiar, it seems faintly old-fashioned.

— Mr Wordy

  • I don't think I ever use it in conversation.
  • It's conceivable that I might on rare occasions use it in writing.
  • Though familiar, it seems faintly old-fashioned.
  • Certainly, in my part of the world it's more of a literary form of words than something people use regularly in everyday speech.
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I don't think I ever use it in conversation. It's conceivable that I might on rare occasions use it in writing. Though familiar, it seems faintly old-fashioned. Certainly, in my part of the world it's more of a literary form of words than something people use regularly in everyday speech.
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Mr. TomCould you please tell me how often native speakers use the idiom "repair to"?
Never -- unless they're imitating the sorts of things they've just read in a historical novel just to be funny.

CJ
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