Do ostriches really bury their heads in the sand?

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🍿 Traffic 🍿
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🔸 Traffic: The movement of vehicles along roads.
Движение (транспорта)

🔸 Traffic Jam: A situation where a large number of vehicles are unable to move forward due to congestion.
Пробка (на дороге)

🔸 Congestion: Overcrowding of vehicles in an area, leading to slow movement or standstill.
Затор (дорожный)

🔸 Bottleneck: A section of a road where traffic is often slowed or stopped because the road narrows or there is an obstruction.
Узкое место, сужение

🔸 Rush Hour: The periods during the day when traffic is most intense, typically when people are commuting to and from work.
Час пик

🔸 Gridlock: A situation where traffic is so heavy that all vehicles are unable to move, often due to intersections being blocked.
Полная остановка движения

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Keys to the #listening_quiz about ostriches ⬆

Do ostriches really bury their heads in the sand?

Contrary to the popular myth, ostriches do not bury their head in the sand when scared or frightened. In fact, when an ostrich senses danger and cannot run away, it will flop to the ground and remain still, attempting to blend in with the terrain.

However, from time to time you might find an ostrich looking as if it has its head in the sand, but not because it’s scared.

Ostriches dig shallow holes in the sand to serve as nests for their eggs. The ostrich will use its beak several times a day to turn the eggs in the nest, creating the illusion of burying its head in the sand.

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A fine line

A fine line is a very small difference. In this sense, fine means thin. So a fine line is a very thin line, used figuratively to refer to a small difference or distinction between things. You often say this when one thing is acceptable and the other is not:

As a parent, I knew that there was a fine line between panic and caution.

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To walk a fine line

means "to achieve or maintain a balance" or "to be very close to two different ideas or attitudes at the same time":

He walked the fine line between confidence and cockiness.

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