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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

Friday, July 8, 2011

HAPPY SATURDAY, REVISING IDIOMS AND COLLOCATIONS.




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A SLIP OF THE TONGUE. 

If you make a slip of the tongue, you make a small mistake when speaking.

By leaps and bounds….

Someone o something is increasing or improving quickly or greatly.

a pasos agigantados.

Call it a day Informal

If you call it a day, you stop doing something that's usually related to work.

Cook the books | cook the accounts.

If someone cooks the books, or cooks the accounts, they keep inaccurate accounts for a business, usually in order to pay less tax.

Grease someone's palm Informal

Meaning: If you grease someone's palm, you pay them a bribe.
Have your hands full
Meaning: If you have your hands full, you're busy.

Kill two birds with one stone.

If you kill two birds with one stone, you achieve two things with the one action.

lose face
If you lose face, your status falls and you aren't respected as much as you were.
Run-of-the-mill
Meaning: Something is run-of-the-mill if it is ordinary and nothing special.
Year in, year out
Meaning: If something has happened year in, year out, it's happened every year for many years in a row.

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