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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, January 8, 2012

Idiom with tin:


Cat on a hot tin roof

If you'll forgive me, I dedicate this to myself because I've been feeling a bit uptight today - you know, like a cat on a hot tin roof.

Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

As you might guess, this means to be nervous and agitated.

How can you use it?

To describe somebody who is very anxious - often when waiting or anticipating something.

The expectant father was like a cat on a hot tin roof waiting for the birth of his daughter.


The phrase was made famous by playwright Tennessee Williams with his play of the same name. His work generally showed tense, repressed relationships where the people were like cats on a hot tin roof!

http://idiom-a-day.blogspot.com/2010/03/cat-on-hot-tin-roof.html

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