Showing posts with label Idioms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Idioms. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 November 2013

Let's get used to include them in our vocabulary :-)




"Spill the beans" means to divulge very confidential information.


"Derramar las habichuelas/judías" significa divulgar información muy confidencial.

"An honest penny" means a small amount of money which was earned legally.


"Un penique honesto" significa una pequeña cantidad de dinero que se ha ganado de forma legal/honesta.

"Pain in the neck" means very annoying.


"Dolor en el cuello" significa que algo es muy molesto.

"Cross the bridge when you get there" means only think about the problems when they come up.


"Cruzar el puente cuando llegas (al puente)" significa preocuparse de los problemas cuando lleguen (y no antes).

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Idioms of the day

Blow your own trumpet means to brag about oneself instead of waiting for other people to praise you.


"Blow your own trumpet"* significa alardear/presumir de uno mismo en lugar de esperar a que otros te elogien.

Beat-up means being in a bad physical or emotional state.

"Beat-up" To be beat up = significa estar en un mal estado físico o emocional, algo así como "machacado".

* Literalmente "Soplar tu propia trompeta"

Sunday, 24 November 2013

Give me something for the pain!!

Who hasn't dreamed of a magic pill to take all kind of pain away? Let's use this song as an adrenaline rush for today and ... Tomorrow it will be a new day :-) 
C'mon, C'mon, C'mon!!



 DON'T MISS THE LYRICS!!
Give me something for the pain (Bon Jovi 1995 from the album These Days)

Happiness, its been no friend to me
But forever after ain't what its all cracked up to be
Yeah, I had a taste, you were my fantasy
But I lost my faith when I hit reality
I don't need no guru to tell me what to do
When your feeling like a headline on
Yesterdays news

Come on, come on, come on
Give me something for the pain
Give me something for the blues
Give me something for the pain when
I feel I've been dangling from a hang-mans noose
Give me something I can use
To get me through the night
Make me feel all right,
Something like you

Loneliness has found a home in me
My suitcase and guitar are my only family
Ive tried to need someone, like they needed me
I opened up my heart, but all I did was bleed
I dont need no lover, just to get screwed
They don't make a bandage, thats going to cover my bruise

Come on, come on, come on
Give me something for the pain
Give me something for the blues
Give me something for the pain when
I feel I've been danglin from a hang-mans noose
Give me something I can use
To get me through the night
Make me feel all right,
Something like you

Pull me under (help Im falling)
Run through my veins (night is calling)
To a place (feels like Im flying)
Where I feel no pain (christ Im dying)
Be the pillow under my head
Cover me when Im in your bed
Take me higher than Ive ever been
Take me down and back again
Come to me, be my disguise
Open your coat, let me crawl inside
Come on, come on, come on

Come on, come on, come on
Give me something for the pain
Give me something for the blues
Give me something for the pain when
I feel Ive been danglin from a hang-mans noose
Give me something I can use
To get me through the night
Make me feel all right,
Something like you


VOCABULARY/EXPRESSIONS
adrenaline rush; "subidón de adrenalina" 
what its all cracked up to be; "lo que tenía que ser" o "lo que esperaba que fuera"
 I hit reality; "la realidad me golpeó"
headline; titular
blues; "tristeza"
I've been dangling from a hang-mans noose; "He estado colgando de la cuerda de un ahorcado"
bleed; "to bleed = sangrar" 
screwed; lo más adecuado sería "jodido"
bandage; "vendaje"
bruise; "golpe, morado"
pillow; "almohada"
disguise; "disfraz, máscara"
coat; "abrigo"
let me crawl inside; "déjame colarme dentro"

Monday, 21 October 2013

Sense of humour; medicine for Monday...




I really recommend "The Office".. it's not the ideal office to work but you really laugh your head off* watching it!!! 

Michael Scott's Best Moments







*laugh one's head off = "partirse de risa"