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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 7, 2012

Every dog has his day.


Every dog has his day

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Origin: The medieval Dutch scholar Erasmus suggests that this saying had its roots in the death of the Greek playwright Euripides. In 405 BC Euripides was killed by dogs set on him by a rival. The proverb was first recorded in the first century by the Greek biographer Plutarch as: "Even a dog gets his revenge." In 1539 Richard Taverner published it in English as: "A dogge hath a day." And in 1670 John Ray's "A Collection of English Proverbs" had it as: "Every dog hath his day."Possible interpretation: 1) Even the lowest of us at some time has a chance to get revenge on an oppressor, no matter how powerful that oppressor may be. 2) We will all have good luck or success at some point in our lives.

Quick Quiz:
"Every dog has his day" is a proverb about
  1. dogs
  2. people
  3. dogs and people
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