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Today we have a fantastic expression.

It is a red-eye flight.

A red-eye flight.

So this is a term, a word that we use when we're talking about traveling on an airplane.

Now, sometimes most of us, when we travel, we want to leave during the daytime in the morning or the afternoon.

And we want to arrive at a nice hour.

But sometimes, especially in America, maybe in your country, too, you can

actually take a much later flight, a flight that leaves at maybe 10 p.m., 11 p.m.

Or maybe even in the early morning hours, like 1, 2, 3, 4 a.m.

Those flights are usually quite cheap. They're cheaper than the regular flights, and we call them

red eyes. A red eye flight, a red eye, or plural, red eyes.

So the spelling is R-E-D-E-Y-E, and it means red-eye.

And you can imagine if you have to wake up at three in the morning,

are your eyes ready to be awake? No, you're still sleepy. You're

still tired. You're rubbing your eyes and you have red eyes. So a red eye flight or red eyes in the

plural form, it's a great word. it's a great expression to know especially if you

travel a lot check out the dialogue can you pick me up at the airport uh sure what time six a

am in the morning i'm coming in on the red eye.

It's true. If you're coming in on a red eye, if you're taking a flight that's a red eye and you are arriving really early in the morning, don't ask people to pick you up. Go ahead and rent a car or take a taxi or public transportation. Nobody wants to wake up early in the morning and pick you up at the airport.

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