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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, March 14, 2014

to done with, to be way behind someone, to fall further behind, to drop out, to catch up, good luch with that,

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to done with: If you say that something is over and done with, you mean that it is completely finished and you do not have to think about it any more. (SPOKEN)
                Once this is all over and done with she's to go into the clinic for a complete rest.
            PHR: v-link PHR, PHR after v 
to be way behind someone, estar retrasado respecto de alguien
to fall further behind, suffer loss or disadvantage, lose ground
to drop out, drop out   drops out; dropping out; dropped out
            If someone drops out of college or a race, for example, they leave it without finishing what they started.
                He'd dropped out of high school at the age of 16.
                She dropped out after 20 kilometres with stomach trouble.
            PHR-V  
to catch up, To catch up with someone means to reach the same standard, stage, or level that they have reached.
                Most late developers will catch up with their friends.
                John began the season better than me but I have fought to catch up.
                During the evenings, the school is used by kids who want to catch up on English and mathematics.
If you catch up on an activity that you have not had much time to do recently, you spend time doing it.
                I was catching up on a bit of reading.
            PHR-V  
good luch with that, buena suerte en eso.
If you say `Good luck' or `Best of luck' to someone, you are telling them that you hope they will be successful in something they are trying to do. (INFORMAL)
                He kissed her on the cheek. `Best of luck!'

            CONVENTION  formulae  

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