Author: andreaalthoff
Weather idioms II: chase rainbows
What a dumb way to die!
The weekend is here! Enjoy it but don’t be dumb!
What do you think about it?
Dumb Ways to Die is an Australian public service announcement campaign by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to promote rail safety. The campaign video went viral through sharing and social media starting in November 2012. This is a parody.
Watch the original video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw
Many thanks Paulo for sharing!
Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff is going on trial
Are you “snowed under with work”?
We started our series of blog posts on the weather here. Check the second and the third posts too! Today we continue with our series, but now teaching the weather idioms!
Para quem não sabe o que são idioms, aqui vai uma explicação simplificada: expressões idiomáticas são combinações de palavras que quando traduzidas ao pé da letra parecem não fazer muito sentido!
A língua inglesa traz diversas expressões que empregam vocábulos relacionados ao clima, mas que são aplicadas em contextos diferentes do original.
Leiam atentamente os exemplos.
