Meaning of AT THE CRACK OF DAWN - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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In English when we say that we do something
"at the crack of dawn" it means that we do
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it really, really early in the morning.
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When I was a kid, I grew up on a farm, you
can see the barns behind me still and my parents,
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my mom and dad, milked cows.
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So they go up every day at the crack of dawn
to go to the barn and milk the cows.
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Also my brother, my older brother, I remember
one time he got up at the crack of dawn because
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we live on a river, and he wanted to go fishing
so he got up at the crack of dawn.
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So "at the crack of dawn" is super early in
the morning.
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Usually we refer to the time when the sun
begins to rise, sunrise, as the crack of dawn.
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Bob the Canadian doesn't get up at the crack
of dawn.
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