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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

Thursday, April 14, 2011

RAGS TO RICHES. IDIOM. 14-03-2011.



rags to riches


For example:Meaning: If you go from rags to riches, you start out very poor and you become very rich.
  • My grandfather went from rags to riches when his dishwashing liquid became very popular. He started out making it at home, but in less than a year he had his own factory.
  • Most of these young guys in professional basketball came from poor neighbourhoods and they all have the same rags-to-riches story.
Note: If used as a modfier before a noun or a noun phrase, hyphens must be added, as in "a rags-to-riches story".


Quick Quiz:
This girl I knew in high school has had an unusual life. She went from rags to riches after she
  1. got a job in a bank
  2. lost millions of dollars gambling
  3. became a top international model
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