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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

Monday, July 25, 2011

A WHITE LIE.


a white lie
Meaning: If you tell a white lie, you say something that isn't true in order to be polite or so as not to hurt someone's feelings.
For example:
Sometimes it's better to tell a white lie than to tell someone a painful truth.
I really didn't want to go to my boss's dinner party, so I told a white lie and said I had to go to a friend's wedding party that night.
Quick Quiz:
Jack asked me how he looked after his operation, so I told a white lie and said
he looked great
he looked terrible
I'd gone blind and I couldn't see him

  
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