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May 13, 2017 · What do small yellow birds have to do with a dark coal mine? Learn the meaning and history of this expression with Anna, Jonathan and Ashley.
Feb 4, 2013 · A canary in a coal mine is an advanced warning of some danger. The metaphor originates from the times when miners used to carry caged canaries while at work; if there was any methane or carbon monoxide in the mine, the canary would die before the levels of the gas reached those hazardous to humans.
Mar 7, 2024 · In the mine, a canary’s collapse let workers know there was poisonous gas in the air and gave them some warning time to evacuate. But come 1981, the British government was planning the birds’...
Hashida Hajime has been working at Maisan Shimbun, a newspaper with a long history, for seven years. An employee at the IT systems department, he is middling in his full-time job but works diligently on his side job of writing manga. Yaginuma Yutaka from the process department messes with him every day. He walks around the company all day long, shooting his mouth off at contemporaries from ...
Aug 26, 2020 · Hashida Hajime has been working at Maisan Shimbun, a newspaper with a long history, for seven years. An employee at the IT systems department, he is middling in his full-time job but works diligently on his side job of writing manga. Yaginuma Yutaka from the process department messes with him every day. He walks around the company all day long, shooting his mouth off at contemporaries from ...
something that gives an early warning of danger or failure, in the way that, in the past, a canary taken into a mine (= an underground place for digging coal or minerals) would die if the air was not safe to breathe, warning the people working there: The Arctic has been called the canary in a coalmine when it comes to global warming.
Hashida Hajime has been working at Maisan Shimbun, a newspaper with a long history, for seven years. An employee at the IT systems department, he is middling in his full-time job but works diligently on his side job of writing manga. Yaginuma Yutaka from the process department messes with him every day. He walks around the company all day long, shooting his mouth off at contemporaries from ...
