the thing is
B2 informal used to introduce an explanation or an excuse:
The thing is, my parents like me to be home by ten o'clock.
The thing is, the shops close early on Sundays.
used to emphasize the importance of what you are saying:
The thing is to keep a good distance from the car in front of you, when you're driving in snow.
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- and/or 2
- anyways
- concatenate
- conjunctive
- connective
- consequently
- ergo
- hereby
- I mean idiom
- mean
- moreover
- never
- now
- OK
- so
- sure enough idiom
- there
- thing
- what
- with that idiom
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