And i'm glad to finally see some blue skies That use is to literally cool yourself down I'm glad to finally see a blue sky.
Beautiful Skies Photograph by Justyn Ripley - Fine Art America
What's the difference between sky and skies
I'm really confused since i watched a news saying people cheered and clapped as the moon blocked the sun for about 2.5 minutes under clear skies o.
A countable noun or an uncountable noun We can count the sky as it is only one, but it's that people refer to as it being uncountable. The writer probably meant takes to the skies, which is a common idiom for flies The phrase take the skies is sometimes used in discussions of military actions to mean that one sides aircraft dominate.
At face value, they are equivalent Cloud (of the sky) become overcast or gloomy ‘the blue skies clouded over abruptly’ note how the definition does not mention over, yet the example does use it This seems to imply that using over is optional, and not required to achieve grammatical correctness.
Interestingly, larks are connected to an earlier commentary on skies falling
From debate on the bank of the united states (april 13, 1810), in the american register, or general repository of history, politics and science (1811) Taylor:] but, says the gentleman [mr Love], there will be foreign influence. Sky noun /skaɪ/ /skaɪ/ [countable, uncountable] (plural skies) the space above the earth that you can see when you look up, where clouds and the sun, moon and stars appear some people say the sky means the space within earth atmosphere where we ave oxygen and space the space outside the earth atmosphere.
The oed says the phrase cool your jets, meaning to calm down or become less agitated, is originally us and the first quoted in a newspaper 1973 daily tribune (wisconsin rapids) 29 jan 1/1 if you want to cool your jets, just step outside, where it will be about 10 degrees under cloudy skies
