Need your help to understand a phrase while reading news
As a last bad news, I was reading guardian and read a sentence containing "UK security services think a bomb was placed in the hold of doomed Russian plane"
Is there someone who can help me to understand what is meaning of "in the hold of" and "doomed" and whole sentence? Thanks in advance for contributing my English.
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Hi Adrian and Hamed, thanks for your explanations. They help a lot.
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'guardian' is the title [name] of a newspaper, so 'the Guardian'.
'doomed' means 'fated' or 'destined' to disaster. It can only be used literally in retrospect, when we know what happened, but sometimes is used to suggest a very high likelihood of failure in the future.
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" Doomed", here, means destroyed. In regard to the other question, "the hold" isn't a set phrase but a part of a plane where cargo is stored.
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