¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English: Idioms and film: Nick of Time Part 1 of 10

!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

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Idioms and film: Nick of Time Part 1 of 10

Nick of time

If you do something in the nick of time, you do it just in time.

'We arrived at the railway station just in the nick of time.'

It's the last possible moment to do something before it's too late.

There's a classic Hitchcock film of the same name with a racy 1995 remake featuring Johhny Depp. It's quite a nail-biter; here's the beginning.
Source: http://idiom-a-day.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/nick-of-time.html

deep-seated discuss
Definition:	(adjective) (Used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held.
Synonyms:	deep-rooted, implanted, ingrained,planted
Usage:	He divined the fanatical love of freedom in her, the deep-seated antipathy for restraint of any sort.

misconstrue
Definition:	Interpret in the wrong way.
Synonyms:	be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misinterpret

¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English