Entradas

Mostrando las entradas etiquetadas como idioms

EXPRESIONES EN INGLÉS CON "OUT OF"

  1-(BE) OUT OF THE PICTURE (NOT TO BE CANDIDATE ANY MORE) (CAERSE DEL CARTEL) 2- (BE) OUT OF THIS WORLD (AMAZING, EXTRAORDINARY)  3- (GO) OUT OF YOUR WAY (DO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE) 4- (BE)  OUT OF THE WOODS (OUT OF DANGER)  5- (TURN UP,COME) OUT OF THE BLUE (DE LA NADA, INESPERADAMENTE, SE SOPETÓN) 6- (COME) OUT OF THE CLOSET (SALIR DEL ARMARIO) 7- (BE) OUT OF THE QUESTION (DISCARDED) (DESCARTADO) 8- (HAPPEN, NOTICE STH.) OUT OF THE ORDINARY (FUERA DE LO NORMAL) 9- (BE) OUT OF STOCK (NOT AVAILABLE, YOU CAN’T BUY IT) 10- (BE) OUT OF LUCK (UNLUCKY IN A PARTICULAR INSTANCE) 11- (THINK) OUT OF THE BOX (THINK IN A DIFFERENT WAY) 12- (BE) OUT OF WORK (ON THE DOLE, UNEMPLOYED) 13- (BE) OUT OF DATE (NOT FASHIONABLE; AS REGARDS FOOD, IT’S NOT SAFE TO EAT IT) 14- (FEEL, BE) OUT OF IT (NOT TO FEEL RIGHT) YOUR TURN. COMPLETE: 1- The emergency is over. We’re finally ………………………………………………………… 2- My trip to FInland was amazing. It was ……………………………………………………. 3- The candidate is no longe...

IDIOMS WITH CATS

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 CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT HE LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG (he told a secret) A FAT CAT (a rich and poweful man) A CAT NAP (doze for a short time) A COPY CAT The word  copycat  is a lighthearted, gently derogatory word for a person who imitates someone else. If you love your friend's red shoes so much that you run out and buy identical ones, she might call you a copycat. When a criminal commits a crime that exactly follows the pattern of a previous crime, newspapers often refer to it as a copycat crime. The word has been in use in the United States since at least the 1880s. A special risk associated to media is the “Werther effect”. Dating back to the high number of suicides after the publication of Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther” in 1774, it describes the apparition of copycat suicides after media reports on suicides. Scientifically it was first described in 1974 by David Philipps whose study, until today, has been considered to be a pioneer work and constitutes a s...