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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

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Set the world on fire. 07-10-2011.


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Meaning: If you set the world on fire, you do something that creates a lot of excitment and makes you famous.

For example:
  • Bob Marley took Jamaican reggae music and set the world on fire with it.
  • Our drama group's first production didn't exactly set the world on fire, but we learnt a lot while doing it.
Note: This idiom is often used in the negative, as in "he didn't set the world on fire with..." 


Quick Quiz:
They really set the world on fire with
  1. their latest bomb attacks
  2. their new style of dance music
  3. their new range of socks
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