C. do not normally use the definite article 'the':
a. to talk about things or people in general: athletics, chinses food, classical music, crime, doctors, dogs, English, fast car, football, history, life, physics, skiing, stamps, teachers, stamps, etc.
b. When we are thinking of the general idea of places: church, college, hospital, school, university, etc. (e.g. Go to church. vs. Somebody went to the church to repair the roof). Most other places are needed the definite article 'The'
c. bed, work, home: in general no 'the'
d. do not normally use 'the' with the names of meals (breakfast, lunch etc.), but a very nice lunch
e. do not use 'the' before noun + number (e.g. page 29 (of a book))
f. go to see/ be at sea, no 'the' when the meaning is 'go/be on a voyage'
g. Names of most city street: Queens Road
h. Important institutions with two word: Harvard University. (e.g. Buckingham Palace but the Royal Palace (Royal is an adjective but it is not a name))
i. most people, most books, most cars etc.
j. with names: William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet
k. Names of companies, airlines are usually without 'the'
Idiom 365
a bit under the weather: not very well or ill
Example: You’re looking a bit under the weather.