- like a fish out of water = strange, different to the rest
- like a fish in muddy/troubled waters = in confused subjects
- a big fish (in a little pond) = an important person (in a small comunity or a restricted situation)
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Recipe: Shortbread
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IDIOMS WITH ANIMALS: BIRD
- As free as a bird: Libre, sin preocupaciones
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush: más vale pájaro en mano que cien volando
«I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. It’s better to be rich».
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays that eschewed the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th-century literature, and a fervent collector of Modernist art. She was born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, raised in Oakland, California, and moved to Paris in 1903, making France her home for the remainder of her life.
Start planning your 2014 travels with the help of our top 5 destination round-up. Some are hosting major events, others are under-the-radar places only just starting to attract tourists, but all of them are inspiring or exciting right now.
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GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
Shut out all night at the Golden Globes, the historical drama «12 Years a Slave» eked out the night’s top honor, best film drama, while the 1970s con-artist caper «American Hustle» landed a leading three awards, including best motion picture – comedy or musical.
The London Underground is a public transport network, composed of electrified railways (that is, a metro system) that run underground in tunnels in central London and above ground in the city’s suburbs. The oldest metropolitan underground network in the world, first operating in 1863, the London Underground is usually referred to as either simply «the Underground» by Londoners, or (more familiarly) as «the Tube».
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Practice your English
Fill in the blanks with the words from the list.
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Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill.
Mount Hagen also hosts a Sing-Sing over the middle weekend of August. It has slightly more tourist vistors and less tribes than Goroka, bit still pulls together and impressive 60 to 70 tribes. It can be combined with vird watching, visiting a Melpa village, going to other birding or cultural activities in Tari, home of the Huli wigmen, or a a visit to any of the dive resorts.
The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the Tudor dynasty.
When Henry VII took the crown of England from Richard III in battle (1485), he brought about the end of the Wars of the Roses between the House of Lancaster (which used the badge of a red rose) and the House of York (which used a white-rose badge).
Henry’s father was Edmund Tudor from the House of Richmond, and his mother was Margaret Beaufort from the House of Lancaster; in January 1486 he married Elizabeth of York to bring all factions together. (In battle, Richard III fought under the banner of the boar, and Henry under the banner of the dragon of his native Wales.) The white rose/red rose idea was a Tudor invention.
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It’s better to actually do something than just talk about it.