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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

Learn the ropes


Picture source and contest: www.expressnightout.com
learn the ropes

Meaning: If you learn the ropes, you learn how to do a job properly, or how things work and how to get things done.
For example:
  • Ruth will teach you what to do, and it shouldn't take you too long to learn the ropes.
  • It can take quite a while for a new lawyer to learn the ropes in a big legal firm.
Note: See also "know the ropes".

Origin: Possibly derived from the days of sailing ships when sailors learned how to tie knots and handle ropes that were attached to the sails. A sailor who was learning all this was said to be "learning the ropes".

Quick Quiz:
Eric is still learning the ropes, so we
  1. can make him manager
  2. can't make him manager
  3. should make him manager
  4. Source: www.englishclub.com

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