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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, July 28, 2011

hack.


Meaning: a newspaper reporter

For example:
  • As he opened his morning newspaper, the prime minister thought, "What have those bloody hacks written about today, I wonder?"
  • England had a good football coach until British newspaper hacks wrote stories about his private life. He quit and left the country.
Note: Most reporters regard this as an offensive term, so be careful if you use it.

Variety: This slang is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

Quick Quiz:
The piece about their upcoming divorce was the work of a hack who
  1. writes for The Sun
  2. teaches at Oxford University
  3. sits on the High Court

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