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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

The plum tie

"It was a calculated gamble from Southgate and Adnan Januzaj’s winner, six minutes into the second half, means England will now have to take on Colombia next Tuesday, whereas Belgium get the plum tie against Japan the previous night."

(The Guardian.)

Does "the plum tie" mean "the favourable/desired tie" in the sentence above?

  

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Yes.

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