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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

Saturday, May 14, 2011

ADVANCED IDIOMS. 14-05-2011. 01.

  1. HAVE YOUR HANDS FULL 
    2. If you have your hands full, you're busy.
  2. BE AN OLD HAND AT SOMETHING someone who has done a particular job or activity for a long time and who can do it very well (often PLUS at ) She's an old hand at magazines, having trained on Cosmopolitan before editing Company.
  3. LAND ON YOUR FEET to be lucky or successful after you have been in a difficult situation She really landed on her feet - she found an apartment right in the middle of San Francisco. Richard takes the most awful risks, but he always seems to fall on his feet.
  4. BE RUSHED OFF YOUR FEET to have to work very hard or very fast.
  5. IT ALL COMES TO A HEAD if a problem or a disagreement comes to a head, it becomes so bad that you have to start dealing with it Things hadn't been good between them for a while but it all came to a head last week when Phil failed to come home one night.
SOURCE: SEVERAL DICTIONARIES AND TOTAL ENGLISH ADVANCED COURSE. LONGMAN.
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