14:20 Jul 11, 2012 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Textiles / Clothing / Fashion | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Laura Friend United States Local time: 10:48 | ||||||
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cue start/in this case, expect Explanation: "Cue" is the director's command to line everything up to start. In this case, you could replace "cue with "you can expect" in your sentence to get the meaning. |
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cue This is the event which causes... Explanation: The word "cue", originally used in scripts and scenarios of plays and films, for the event or word which is a sign for something to happen (someone's entrance, some sound effect, etc.), has come to take on this meaning in a more general way (probably because it is just a little three-letter word, so it is a more concise way of expressing the idea). |
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27 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
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