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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

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

A good man is hard to find. ENHANCING YOUR ENGLISH EVERY DAY REVISING SAYINGS WITH PICTURES. 06-29-2011.


Possible interpretation: This saying talks about the difficulties for women in finding a suitable male partner.

Note: hard (adj.): difficult | American actress and sex symbol Mae West (1892-1980) famously misquoted this saying as: "A hard man is good to find."

Origin: This phrase was the title of the song A Good Man Is Hard To Find first sung in the USA in 1918:
A good man is hard to find
You always get another kind
Just when you think that he is your pal
You look an' find him fooling 'round some old gal...

Quick Quiz:
If "a good man is hard to find", then there are probably
a. not many good men
b.                       no good men
c. too many good men
  
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http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:A_Good_Man_Is_Hard_to_Find.pdf
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