Idiom
special delivery
Meaning
Something—whether desirable or undesirable—which is intentionally given to a specific individual or which an individual receives rapidly and unexpectedly; the personalized, direct quality of the transmission of such an item.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The courier arrived with a special delivery for me.”
“I was surprised when the office manager walked in with a special delivery of flowers for my birthday.”
“The unexpected arrival of the legal notice, marked as a special delivery, signaled that the long-standing dispute had finally reached a critical turning point.”
Examples
simple
“The courier arrived with a special delivery for me.”
contextual
“I was surprised when the office manager walked in with a special delivery of flowers for my birthday.”
complex
“The unexpected arrival of the legal notice, marked as a special delivery, signaled that the long-standing dispute had finally reached a critical turning point.”
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