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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

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

NIP IT IN THE BUD













Meaning:
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 If you nip something in the bud, you stop a problem from becoming serious by dealing with it as soon as you notice it.
For example:
  • Alan has a serious weight problem. Now he wishes he'd nipped it in the bud by eating less and exercising more when he was first starting to put on weight.
  • I was starting to drink too much alcohol, so I nipped it in the bud and stopped drinking altogether before it became a serious problem.
Origin: This is a metaphorical idiom based on the fact that if you want to stop a plant from growing bigger, you can cut off the new leaf buds or flower buds, or "nip the buds".

Quick Quiz:
Jules and Clive were starting to have problems in their marriage, so they decided to nip the problem in the bud and
  1. get a divorce
  2. get some counselling
  3. pretend it wasn't happening
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