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In the US, we use expressions such as summer vacation, spring break and semester break. It depends on why the school is closed. When there is a lot of snow, we just say that the 'schools were closed' or that the kids had 'a snow day'.
This might be a sentence you'd hear, for example:
Come see me after spring break.
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Hi Tom,
In my small island we would say: Come and see me when school's over.
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Feb 25, 2008 16:38 pm Word required for a situation |
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| Tom wrote: |
| (a teacher to student) Come to me after off-time. |
| Yankee wrote: |
| Come see me after spring break. |
| Alan wrote: |
| Come and see me when school's over. |
Hi Tom
The sentence I gave you would basically be used to mean "come see me when school is no longer closed/when school is in session again/when spring break is over/after the break".
I'd interpret Alan's sentence to mean basically the opposite -- i.e. "come and see me during the break/when school is closed".
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