Now Out: Essay 1050 on 暇 (free time) and 5 Revisions

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Find out which famous author called himself Godzilla's egg! See how two terms for "to give vacation time" can also mean "to fire" and "to divorce one's wife"! Learn to talk about filling free time, being unable to spare any time, killing time, not wasting a moment, and taking a paid day off. Also discover how to say "Firefighting is a feast-or-famine job" and "I was out of town on vacation."

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