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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, August 12, 2011
BIRD.
bird [countable]
1 a creature with wings and feathers that can usually fly. Many birds sing and build nests, and female birds lay eggs.:
6 give somebody the bird a) American English informal to make a very rude sign at someone by holding your middle finger up b) British English to show strong disapproval of someone who is performing or speaking in public by shouting, making rude noises etc 7 a bird in the hand (is worth two in the bush) used to say that it is better to keep what you have than to risk losing it by trying to get more 8 the bird has flown informal used to say that the person you are looking for has already left or escaped 9 be (strictly) for the birds old-fashioned informal to be silly, useless, or not practical 10 wise/wily/funny/weird etc old bird old-fashioned informal a person who seems wise, funny etc 11 do bird British English old-fashioned informal to serve a prison sentence[= do time] ➔ early bird at early1 (9) ; ➔ kill two birds with one stone at kill1(13) Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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6 give somebody the bird
ReplyDeletea) American English informal to make a very rude sign at someone by holding your middle finger up
b) British English to show strong disapproval of someone who is performing or speaking in public by shouting, making rude noises etc
7 a bird in the hand (is worth two in the bush) used to say that it is better to keep what you have than to risk losing it by trying to get more
8 the bird has flown informal used to say that the person you are looking for has already left or escaped
9 be (strictly) for the birds old-fashioned informal to be silly, useless, or not practical
10 wise/wily/funny/weird etc old bird old-fashioned informal a person who seems wise, funny etc
11 do bird British English old-fashioned informal to serve a prison sentence[= do time]
➔ early bird at early1 (9) ; ➔ kill two birds with one stone at kill1(13)
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.