Episode 78 leave no stone unturned

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Episode 78-Transcript and Grammar Notes

Saturday, 31 March 2018

leave no stone unturned

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TRIVIA

Americans spend 1.2 billion dollars on flowers during Easter.

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DID YOU KNOW…

Smith River, Calif. is called the Easter Lily capital of the world.The lily is a large, trumpet-shaped, fragrant white flower that symbolizes life, hope, and purity. About 95 percent of the world’s Easter lily bulbs grow along the California and Oregon border. Bulb production in the United States began after World War I when an American soldier brought a suitcase full of lily bulbs from Japan and distributed them to friends and neighbors along the southern Oregon coast.~Flower Power

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Hello and welcome to episode 78…of… An Idiom a Day

I’m Gina Johnson and the idiom of the day …is… leave no stone unturned

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Leave no stone unturned. Explore the beauty of your life. ~Neil Gaiman

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leave no stone unturned… if you say that you will leave no stone unturned, you are emphasizing that you will try everything possible to achieve what you want… to do everything you can in order to find something or to solve a problem

She did everything possible to find her birth mother.

Here is the same sentence using the idiom… leave no stone unturned

She left no stone unturned searching for her birth mother.

Here are a few more sentences using the idiom … leave no stone unturned

We will leave no stone unturned to find out who stole your identity.

During their investigation, the detectives left no stone unturned.

Both sides agreed to leave no stone unturned in an effort to find peace.

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QUESTION

What keys do you have on your keychain?

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