Sentences with phrase «kind of dress rehearsal»
The Golden Globes are usually a frothy kind of dress rehearsal for the main event.
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During the Spanish Civil War of 1936 - 39 — a war that was a kind of dress rehearsal for World War II — it declared that its sympathies were «wholeheartedly» with the duly elected republican government; it detested «this Franco revolt,» which was going forward in large part because of aid from fascist Germany and Italy.
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Eventually, the whole system should get a dress rehearsal in Antarctica, hopefully becoming the first of its kind to drill through 3000 metres of ice into South Pole Lake.
The last part may not be 100 % true (the part about the lumps of coal), but the fact is, one day you just kind of wake up, and realize that this isn't a dress rehearsal.