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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

Sunday, November 27, 2011

leave well enough alone | let well enough alone


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Meaning: If you leave well enough alone, or let well enough alone, you don't try to improve or change something that's already good enough.
For example:
  • The kids seem happy enough now so let's just leave well enough alone and forget about finding a new school for them.
  • Unless there's a problem, I'd suggest you just let well enough alone and let your staff get on with their work.
Note: "Leave well alone" and "let well alone" are also used, esp. in Australian and British English. 

Variety: This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

Quick Quiz:
Some staff think we need new packaging for our products, and others think we should leave well enough alone and
  1. change to new packaging
  2. go back to older packaging
  3. keep the same packaging
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