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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 28, 2013

Soft touch or easy touch



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 26 touch  
If you say that someone is a soft touch or an easy touch, you mean that they can easily be persuaded to lend you money or to do things for you. (INFORMAL)
    Mr Wilson is no soft touch.
    Pamela was an easy touch when she needed some cash.
PHR: v-link PHR  



touch       
    1 touch   touches   touching   touched  
If you touch something, you put your hand onto it in order to feel it or to make contact with it.
    Her tiny hands gently touched my face.
    Don't touch that dial.
    She reached down, touching her toes with opposite hands.
    The virus is not passed on through touching or shaking hands.
VB  

    + touch   touches  
Also a noun.
    Sometimes even a light touch on the face is enough to trigger off this pain.
N-COUNT: usu sing  

    2 touch   touches   touching   touched  
If two things are touching, or if one thing touches another, or if you touch two things, their surfaces come into contact with each other.
    Their knees were touching .
    A cyclist crashed when he touched wheels with another rider.
    If my arm touches the wall, it has to be washed again.
    In some countries people stand close enough to touch elbows.
    He touched the cow's side with his stick.
V-RECIP-ERG  

    3 touch  
Your sense of touch is your ability to tell what something is like when you feel it with your hands.
    The evidence suggests that our sense of touch is programmed to diminish with age.
    ...boys and girls who are blind and who want to be able to read and write by touch.
N-UNCOUNT  
Collins Dictionary

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