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Mennolin Posted 9 years ago
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Hello Everyone. Look at this sentence please:
"Alcoholism might be something to be a bit ashamed of but people with a forty-a-day habit regularly talked to journalists about their indulgence"
What does "forty-a-day habit" mean? Why forty? Is it some kind of idiom or what? Or does it simply mean that someone do something 40 times a day?
Thank you.
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It means that they smoke forty cigarettes a day.
- It means that they smoke forty cigarettes a day.
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There are 20 cigarettes in a pack. We are far more likely to say, "He smokes two packs a day." than "He smokes forty a day."
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