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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!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

Monday, April 25, 2011

How to improve your English through slang. 25-04-2011.


pickle
Meaning: trouble, a difficult situation
For example:
Julio got himself in a pickle when he accidentally sent an SMS to his wife - an SMS he'd written for his girlfriend! 
Poor old Paddy's in a pickle. He bet the money his wife had given him for the rent on a horse, and it lost! 
Note: This is old-fashioned slang, but you still hear it used sometimes.
Quick Quiz:
Gina got herself in a pickle, and she was very
a)upset about it
b)happy about it
c)comfortable in it
source: englishclub.com
  
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