=> Does it mean exactly “The dog can die within some hours”?
I find the phrase “a matter of hours” a bit strange. Could you please give me another example of it?
Yes, you’re right, it means that the dog can die in a few hours. in a matter of hours/month/seconds is a common collocation, and you will hear a lot of it.
Hi Alex
I think your keyboard must have had a brief short circuit which caused a couple of the Ns you typed to appear as a couple of Ts: “in a manner of speaking”.
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The expression ‘in a manner of speaking’ means in a way; as it were; so to speak. In other words, it is a way of saying or wording something which might not be literally true, or which might not necessarily be seen as correct by everyone.
Meet the woman who, in a manner of speaking, introduced Ebonics to the world.