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Tham khảo tài liệu 'british english a to zed phần 5', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 158 High Street High Street Main Street The British commonly name the principal thoroughfare of their villages and towns The High street and in referring to it they still retain the definite article see Appendix . British High Streets are about as common as American Main Streets. high tea light supper High tea includes something cooked eggs or sausages or Welsh rarebit or any combmation of these. It is the equivalent of a light supper. Hilary. See under term. hip n. Inf. the blues Inf. Also used as a transitive verb meaning to give the blues to someone . to depress him. As a noun it is sometimes spelled hyp revealing its derivation hypochondria . Now often called the pip. See also the hump. hire. See under engage. hire-and-drive n. rent-a-car hire-purchase n. installment plan Also known colloquially as the never-never suggesting that the final payments are never made. Also that which is repossessed is known as hire-purchase snatch-back. hit someone all over the shop Inf. Inf. run rings around someone hit for six. See under six. Hitler s War World War II Inf. See also Great War. hit off Inf. mimic accurately hive off split off Inf. Used of a group that splits off from the main organization like a swarm of bees deserting the hive or a group of employees leaving their jobs in a company to start their own company. HMSO. See Her Majesty s Stationery Office. hoarding n. billboard The primary meaning of this word apart from its use as present participle of hoard is construction site fence the roughly built temporary type on which people are fond of posting notices despite the customary advice to the contrary and through the holes or chinks of which people are fond of peering. No Hoarding is not an injunction in times of shortages of commodities it means Post No Bills which sometimes appears as stick No Bills. hockey n. field hockey To a Briton hockey means field hockey to an American ice hockey. If a Briton wants to talk about the type played on ice he calls it .