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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

Monday, January 30, 2012

Dig your heels in from several sources


onceuponateacher.blogspot.com
Meaning: If you dig your heels in, you stubbornly resist something or refuse to change.
For example:
  • Even though the developer offered them more than their houses were worth, the owners dug their heels in and refused to sell up and make way for the office block.
  • When their record company told the band to change their style and make more commercial music, the band dug their heels in and refused to change.
Origin: Probably related to the fact that if a person or an animal resists being pulled forward, the body will lean backwards and the heels will dig into the ground as the legs resist the forward motion.

Quick Quiz:
When her children wanted to move her into an old folk's home, Edith dug her heels in and
  1. agreed to go
  2. started gardening
  3. refused to go


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