12:16 Aug 21, 2006 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Art/Literary - Music | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Fan Gao Australia Local time: 23:45 | ||||||
Grading comment
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED | ||||
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3 +9 | tools of the trade |
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4 +1 | the equipment and skills necessary to carry out one's profession |
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4 | an idiom for the instruments a band uses |
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tools of the trade Explanation: are anything that you need to do a particular job. They don't have to be tools in the narrow sense of "implements". So for us translators tools of the trade include things like dictionaries and computers. Basically they are "what you do the job with". |
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