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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

To have it happen...

-Chief, you know it's always risky to leave a suspect alone
in an interview room.

-I know procedure wasn't properly followed, and it's a bad day
to have it happen.

what does it mean to have it happen?
  

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Allow me to rephrase: -I know procedure wasn't properly followed, and it's a bad day for us to fail to follow the proper procedure. Why, exactly, today is worse than other days is not explained in the context you supply but is presumably made clear in the movie or TV show this is taken from.

  • Allow me to rephrase: -I know procedure wasn't properly followed, and it's a bad day for us to fail to follow the proper procedure.
  • Why, exactly, today is worse than other days is not explained in the context you supply but is presumably made clear in the movie or TV show this is taken from.
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Allow me to rephrase:

-I know procedure wasn't properly followed, and it's a bad day for us to fail to follow the proper procedure.

Why, exactly, today is worse than other days is not explained in the context you supply but is presumably made clear in the movie or TV show this is taken from.
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Anonymousit's a bad day to have it happen.
It's a bad day for this to happen. This happened on a bad day.

CJ
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thanks both of you...

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