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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, November 26, 2011

axe



  • axe also ax American English [countable]
  • 1 a tool with a heavy metal blade on the end of a long handle, used to cut down trees or split pieces of wood ➔ pickaxe
  • 2

     the axe

    informal if someone gets the axe, they are dismissed from their job:
  • 100 workers are facing the axe in a cost-cutting exercise.
  • 3

     the axe

    informal if a plan, system, or service gets the axe, someone gets rid of it:
  • MPs know there will be cuts in public spending but do not know on which department the axe will fall.
  • 4

     have an axe to grind

    to have a strong personal opinion about something which is the reason why you do something:
  • I need objective advice from someone with no axe to grind.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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