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It Is Not Nice to 'Dump on' Others — VOA Learning English

Article · Language: English · Level: medium · Author: VOA Learning English · ≈ 3 min · 468 words

Topics: суспільство

It Is Not Nice to 'Dump on' Others

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And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.

Trash may not be a glamorous subject. But it is an important one. We can throw our trash in a container called a trash can. We can dispose of our garbage in a garbage can. We can dump our unwanted things in a dumpster. All these unwanted things might end up at a landfill, sometimes called a dump.

We explored being down in the dumps in a recent Words and Their Stories.

Being at the bottom of a dump is probably not a nice place to be. If you are down in the dumps, you feel sad. Down in the dumps means you have the blues, or you feel out of sorts. You are the opposite of happy.

If your friend is down in the dumps, you could try to do…

Tap any word for its translation at once; the word goes into your deck together with its sentence.

Anna Matteo wrote this lesson for VOA Learning English.

Source: learningenglish.voanews.com/a/it-is-not-nice-to-dump-on-others/7039864.html

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