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  • Welcome to English in a minute.

  • A skeleton is the free of bones inside an animal, and the crew is a group of people who worked closely together.

  • Skeleton Group.

  • This expression sounds creepy.

  • Hey, are you going to the seven Dust concert tomorrow night?

  • I wish.

  • I'm working at the animal shelter tomorrow.

  • You can't leave a little early.

  • No, the shelter is running a skeleton crew.

  • Only two of us will be there all day.

  • The term skeleton crew means the minimum number of people needed to continue an operation.

  • A skeleton crew is usually called in during an emergency or when a business does not expect to have many customers.

  • And that's English in a minute.

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