!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
dum‧my plural dummies [countable]
ReplyDelete1for clothes a model that is the shape and size of a person, especially used in order to show clothes in a shop or when you are making clothes:
a shop-window dummy
a tailor's dummy
2copy an object that is made to look like a tool, weapon, vehicle etc but which you cannot use:
During practice runs, the warheads in the missiles will be dummies.
3doll a small model of a person, with a mouth that can be moved so that it looks as though it is talking, used for entertainment:
a ventriloquist's dummy
4sports British English a move in a sport such as football in which a player pretends to pass the ball but does not, in order to deceive the other team's players
5for babies British English a specially shaped rubber object that you put in a baby's mouth for it to suck [= pacifier American English]
6stupid person especially American English informal someone who is stupid:
No, you dummy. The other hand.
7card game cards that are placed on the table by one player for all the other players to see in a game of bridge
➔ spit the dummy at spit (9)
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.