Flashcard 15 - Listening Flashcard Set for the TOEFL Test
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The expression “a far cry from” means “completely different” from what was/is expected.
Explanation:
It refers to something that is very unlike something else. The professor is using this idiom to express the large difference between the homes in the eighteenth century and homes in the twenty-first century.
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