Dictionary of Idioms

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Expressões, Ditados e Provérbios em Inglês-Português

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20/20 hindsight [ˈtwɛnti-ˈtwɛnti ˈhaɪndˌsaɪt] 🔊
retrospectiva perfeita; visão perfeita do passado - a capacidade de olhar para um evento transcorrido e vê-lo/entendê-lo com total clareza. (Twenty). "20/20" refere-se à visão perfeita em testes de optometria. ✰ In 20/20 hindsight, he recognized all the signs that he should have noticed earlier, but at the time, the situation seemed much less clear. (Em retrospectiva perfeita, ele reconheceu todos os sinais que deveria ter notado antes, mas na época a situação parecia muito menos clara.)

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1. TWENTY-twenty hindsight. In: Merriam-Webster. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc., [s.d.]. Disponível em: https://n9.cl/w7787. Acesso em: 10 ago. 2023.

24/7 [ˈtwɛnti-fɔr ˈsɛvən] 🔊
24 horas por dia, 7 dias por semana - (adv., com.) ininterruptamente; todo dia e toda hora. (24/7). ✰ "Many Valley restaurants are open 24/7." (Yara, 2016). (Muitos restaurantes do Vale estão abertos 24 horas por dia, 7 dias por semana.)

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1. 24/7. In: Collins Dictionary. Glasgow: HarperCollins, [2023?]. Disponível em: https://rb.gy/zfazf. Acesso em: 23 jun. 2023.
2. YARA, Georgann. Morning, afternoon and night: 20 Valley spots open 24 hours. AZ Central, [S.l.], 25 abr. 2016. Disponível em: https://rb.gy/21hyd. Acesso em: 23 jun. 2023.

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