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I am new to this English stack exchange, I asked this question on the movie stack exchange

Though it was a question from a movie it's also related to English Language. I will be simply pleased and delighted if anyone could help me to understand. Thank you

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  • The middle of the summer. Depends on country. July/August in most cases – mplungjan Jun 20 '13 at 15:11
  • I think of it as the time of summer when spring is just a memory, and autumn is not yet looming. As a child, it would have been halfway between the last day of school and the first day of the next school year. – JLG Jun 20 '13 at 15:57
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    Strangely, same meaning as 'the height of summer': see english.stackexchange.com/q/30407/8019. – Tim Lymington Jun 20 '13 at 16:43
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In the middle of July/August in the northern hemisphere, or around Xmas in for example Cape Town when the sky looks like this when we look up

Azure

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  • lightest summer? – Edwin Ashworth Jun 20 '13 at 16:31
  • (Taxi Driver - ignore that quip. As the other comments etc say, it's deep in the sense furthest from the surface / start and finish, with a hint of luxuriant foliage.) – Edwin Ashworth Jun 20 '13 at 16:32
  • Your comment says "July/August in most cases" and in your answer you repeat "July/August". But that applies only in the Northern Hemisphere. I dispute "in most cases" - there are countries in the Southern hemisphere with summer in December/January! – TrevorD Jun 20 '13 at 19:16
  • Right. Corrected. However I feel deep summer is more a northern thing :) – mplungjan Jun 20 '13 at 20:15
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    The sky always looks like that. – tchrist♦ Jun 20 '13 at 21:27

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