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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

Saturday, September 24, 2011

DAILY UPDATED IDIOMS WITH PICTURES. Let the cat out of the bag.


Let the cat out of the bag.







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Meaning: If you let the cat out of the bag, you let someone know a secret.
For example:
  • We'd planned a surprise party for Donna, but some guy she works with let the cat out of the bag, so now she knows.
  • Don't forget that this is a secret, so whatever you do, don't let the cat out of the bag.
Origin: Possibly related to the fact that in England in the Middle Ages, piglets were usually sold in bags at markets. Sometimes, someone would try to cheat a buyer by putting a cat in one of the bags instead of a piglet. And if someone let the cat out of the bag, the fraudster's secret was revealed.

Quick Quiz:
After Julie let the cat out of the bag,
  1. everybody laughed
  2. we all knew
  3. they ran after it

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