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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

Friday, December 2, 2011

screw


  • screw [countable]
  • 1 a thin pointed piece of metal that you push and turn in order to fasten pieces of metal or wood together [↪ nail]:
  • Fix the frame in position and tighten the screws.
  • 2
  • a) informal not polite an offensive word meaning an act of having sex
  • b) 

    a good screw

    informal not polite a very offensive word for someone who is good at having sex
  • 3

    have a screw loose

    informal to be slightly crazy
  • 4

    put/tighten the screws on somebody

    informal to force someone to do something by threatening them:
  • The government has started to tighten the screws on illegal share dealers.
  • 5 British English informal a prison officer - used especially by prisoners
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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