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Dancing Expresions

"Dancar no ar" e estar muito feliz.

Jane esta dancando no ar desde que se apaixonou por Bob.

Dancar num ritmo diferente e mudar o comportamento depois de um acontecimento na vida.

Joe mudou seu comportamento depois que ganhou na loteria.

"Fora de compasso" significa nao estar ciente de alguma coisa.

David esta por fora da ultima moda.

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Raise and Rise

The verb raise means to lift something to a higher position. You use raise when you are or someone is lifting something so, for example, I can say: I can raise my coffee cup, means I lift it up into the air in a higher position. In a meeting I would say: Would all those in favor please raise their hands?
I also could give a piece of advice: You should never raise a hand to a child or a woman.
We also use that verb raise when we are talking about what parents do to help their children when they are growing up. Parents raise children means they take care of children as they grow older.
We can also use raise with the following ideas:
The government plan to raise taxes.
I had to raise my voice to make myself heard over the noise.
The discussion has raised many important issues.
I want to raise two questions with you.
I need to raise some cash.
I will ask my boss a raise.
The verb to rise means that you get up; you are getting up, getting higher so I say: I rise at 7 am every morning, meaning that I get up; I leave my bed at 7 am.
We can also say that the sun rises in the morning and it sets at night. The balloon rose gently into the air.
We can also use the verb rise for the water: In a river during the spring the river rises and it means that there are more water so it goes up, it rises too much and floods the land around. In Egypt the Nile floods the land around and that’s because it rises at a certain time of the year.
We can also use rise with the following ideas:
We had a sudden temperature rise.
We had a 5% rise in inflation last year.


What is the difference between "must", "have to" and "got to"?

Well, actually all of this means the same thing. If I say: I must go, it means that is necessary that I go; I have an obligation to go. If I say: I have to go I’m saying the same thing; it’s necessary, there’s an obligation.
The expression "I got to go" is informal. You can also say: "I have got to go" and here there’s a small difference because using these informal expressions we might be expressing certain urgency or much necessity.
So you can say: "I have to leave now", "I must leave now" or in informal way: "I got to leave now" meaning the same thing.
I just would say that "must" is a little bit more formal; someone who wants to sound a little more educated might use "must" instead of "have to" or "got to", but they are perfectly acceptable.


What is the difference between "Yet" and "Still"?

Well, let’s see a question: Is he here yet? Is he here still? What is the difference?
When you say: Is he here yet, you are saying maybe he is not here right now. You are expecting here to be here so: Is he here yet means he wasn’t here before and you are asking if he is here now.
When you say: Is he here still, you are saying that this person was here, he was here and you were expecting him to leave so if someone says: Are you still here, what they are really saying is: why haven’t you left yet? You are here but I don’t expect you to be here. Perhaps I was hoping that you would not be here.
So "yet" means the person was not there but you were expecting them to be there and "still" means the person is there and you were expecting them to leave.


What the expression "wash down" means?

Wash down means to drink something after eating something so if I had a sandwich and after I drank a glass of beer, I washed the sandwich down with a glass of beer. So wash down means to drink but we use it when we are talking about eating something before.

I’m going to eat a piece of fish and I’m going to wash it down with a glass of water or usually with some alcoholic drink like wine, beer or that sort of thing. First you eat and then you drink.


What is the meaning of the word "Hype"?

Hype is when something is continually advertised and discussed in newspaper, television, etc. Hype means that people are talking about and something is very popular. There has been a lot of hype around the movie 2012, meaning that everybody is talking about it.
Lately, people are talking about the I-Pod and there’s a lot of hype about it meaning that’s a lot of publicity around it, a lot of advertisements. In general hype means that it’s very popular and everyone is talking about it and that’s supposed to be very good and it could be a movie, a car, an actor, everything could have hype.


What is the meaning of the expression "No brainer"?

Well, no brainer means that you don’t have to think about what you should do because it’s obvious. You don’t need to use your brain because the answer is obvious. We use the expression "no brainer" when we are talking about an action that has to be taken, for example, let’s suppose that it’s raining so I got my umbrella so I would not get wet. It’s no brainer; I don’t have to think about it because it’s obvious.
You can use this expression just in the negative so you can’t use "it’s brainer" in opposite to "no brainer".


What is the meaning of the word "Pimp"?

Well, pimp has different meanings and as a noun a pimp is a man who has women who work for him as prostitutes; women that sell themselves for sexual purposes. A pimp is a man who controls and finds customers for the prostitutes, he is a man that organizes and takes part of the money from the women so he’s sort of like their boss and, of course, that’s not something you want your son to grow up and be. Most parents I think. Nevertheless, in US the figure of a pimp usually is someone who dresses with a lot of fancy clothing, a big hat and drives a very big car that has a lot of very expensive things added to it.
As a verb, to pimp also has many different meanings but one of them is very well known because of a television program called: "Pimp my Ride" so to pimp you ride or to pimp your car means that you make your car looks better, looks nicer by putting many expensive things on the outside of your car.


The uses of the word "Rather"

We have a couple of different uses of rather; one of them is "would rather". In the sentence: I would rather go to the park than to the beach, here would rather is expressing a preference for one thing over the other. I also could say: I would prefer to go to the park than to the beach. So would rather and would prefer have the same meaning. If I say: I would prefer not to go, or I would rather not go, those are the same.
"Rather than" is similar; I want the ice-cream rather than the piece of pie, meaning I want this one instead of the other one.
"Rather" meaning very much: I rather prefer ice-cream, meaning I very much prefer ice-cream.
"Rather" as a small amount: It’s rather cold today, isn’t it? Rather here means that the weather is not so cold today.


Differences between "In" and "Into"

Well, you can say that you are in the house walking into the kitchen or into the living room.
Let’s say that I’m going in the house and being inside it, I’m going into the kitchen. Where am I? I am in the house walking into the kitchen and later I’m going into the room to watch TV.
You can also say into meaning that you are interested in something, for example, if I say that I am into classical music, I am saying that I am interested in classical music.


The meanings of the word "Indeed"

There are a couple of uses for the word indeed. One is the idea that something is really, truly, or actually. For example, I can say: He is indeed here, or he is really here, or he is truly here. He is actually here. They are all the same thing.
Another use of indeed is when you agree with someone. Someone says: It’s cold out today, and you answer: indeed it is.
You can also use the word indeed instead of using the word in fact: someone says: It’s very cold today and you may answer: indeed, it’s freezing instead of saying in fact it is freezing.


What is "Mail-in Rebate"?

When you buy something that has a rebate that means that you will have some money back after doing your purchase so rebate is when a company gives you money back after you buy something.
After your purchase, the company gives you some money back if you mail-in the receipt of your purchase; of course, the company has to be offering a rebate for you to do so.
Most of the things that you buy don’t have a rebate but it is one way that companies discovered to sell more things, so if they want to sell, for example, more TV sets, they may offer a rebate for you to buy one and after you buy it you must send to the company an email with a copy of the receipt attached in order to have some money back.


What’s the difference between "On time" and "In time"?

On time means that you are on schedule; you are arriving at a place at the time you said you are going to be there.
The train is supposed to arrive at the station at 7 o’clock. If it arrives on time, it arrives at 7 o’clock and if it arrives after 7 it’s not on time; it’s late.
In time is when you have a deadline, you have a certain limit of time and you need something done before that limit, for example, you need to give your boss a report by 6 o’clock this afternoon and if you give it to him at 5:30, you give to him in time, before the deadline.


The uses of "Going to" and “will"

Well, when do we use going to and when do we use will? What’s the difference between them?
Well, both forms are about the future; something that will happen; something that will happen or something that is going to happen in the future; could be a day, an hour, and a year from now. The differences are not really in meaning. I could say: I’m going to go or I will go. I would say that going to is a little more informal and a little more common.
I’m going to talk about. I will talk about. "Will" here a little more formal perhaps. Will you go? Yes, I will go. That’s something you might read in a novel but you also hear people use will in talking about something that will happen in the future. There will be rain tomorrow. There’s going to be rain tomorrow. Either one is possible.
There are some cases that "will" is more common, but they are very similar in terms of the amount the people use them.


Wage and Salary

Wage is when you work for a company and you are paid by the hour.
Salary is when the company pays you not by the hour but usually by the year and so they say: Well, we are going give you $30 thousand dollars a year but you may have to work a lot of hours for that and if you work more hours you don’t get paid more money for that. Maybe you do overtime but you will not get paid for the extra hours.
A typical American worker works for the hour in a week but if you are on a salary you sometimes will work more than that.
We usually talk about the distinction between types of work; a couple of expressions is "white collar" and "blue collar". A blue collar worker is someone who works in a manual type of job and it’s paid by the hour and they have a wage. A manual job is where you have to use your hands so if you are a painter of walls, or you do the cleaning, you are a blue collar worker.
A white collar worker or a white collar job is when you work in an office like a lawyer or maybe as a doctor or a university professor and you have a salary.


What’s the difference between "Afraid" and "Frightened"?

Well, in most cases afraid is a little less serious, dramatic so you can say: I’m afraid of flying or I’m afraid of going into the water, the ocean water because there may be a shark there so it means that you have some fear. We also use "I’m afraid" for: I’m afraid I can’t go, meaning that you are sorry but you can’t go; it won’t be possible.
Frightened is usually when you are very afraid, very scared, you have a lot of fear often with something that happened suddenly. I heard a noise outside my window and it frightened me. I got scared and it’s much more dramatic, it’s a more intense feeling.


What is the meaning of the words "Even" and "Odd"?

Well, even is used for numbers and numbers that you can divide by two so 2, 4, 6, 8, 156, and so forth, they are all called even numbers. Odd numbers are numbers like 1, 3, 5, 7, 269, and so forth, they are all odd numbers.
The words odd and even have other meanings; even is used sometimes to mean that things are the same, are equal so, for example, if you do something wrong to someone they may be mad or angry at you and they might want to do something wrong to you so they will try to get even, to have revenge. Thus, if I try to hurt someone who has hurt me and I do that I may say: now we are even; I have hurt you like you have hurt me.
We also use even as an adverb and it’s used to provide emphasis or to point out something that is very strange, unusual or surprising: even the girls want to watch the baseball game; even my father wants to go to the opera and normally he wouldn’t go to the opera, it’s surprising he wants to go.
Odd also means that something is strange. I can say this is very odd, he is very odd, meaning he’s weird, strange.
Odd sometimes can also mean something difficult like in the expression: against all odds. Let’s suppose that it’s raining a lot and you decide to go out. No one would go out in such rainy day, but you, against all odds, decide to go out even you know that it will be very difficult and unpleasant.

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Let’s talk about … Wasting Time at Work!

In a recent survey of employees in the US they asked them how much time they waste at work that’s, how much time they spend not doing what they are supposed to be doing, relaxing or killing the time.
Well, the responses were very interesting. They found that 37% of the time that people spent at work was wasted according to their own reports. One of the things the people do, of course, is look at email and answer personal emails. They also spent a lot of time looking at different websites.
There was another study that found that one out of every four that is 25% of American workers look at a blog every day. As you probably know a blog is some sort of website where people post; put on their website their own personal comments or articles.
This however is not just a problem in the US in an article that I was reading they said that in a survey in 9 different countries they found that about 1/3 of the time during the working hours people said that they were not really working.


Let’s talk about … California!

California is famous in the US and in many parts of the world as being the home of Hollywood.
Hollywood is where movies are made there in Los Angeles, but Hollywood is an actual neighborhood in Los Angeles; it’s a part of the city of L.A. There isn’t a separate city called Hollywood, it’s just part of the largest city of L.A. However when people talk about Hollywood they are talking about the movie industry and television business.
California is also famous for its beaches. The most famous beach is probably Venice Beach, Venice like the city in Italy.
The third thing California is famous for other people who don’t live in California is that they think California people are a little strange, a little weird, and a little different.
California is made up of people from other states, not people who were born there and lived there their whole life; there are many migrants from other parts of the US, people who migrated, and there are many immigrants from all over the world. California has the reputation of being a little strange, being involved in different type of things like interesting and exotic religions, physical activities and so on.
There’s an old expression that says that California is the land of fruits and nuts, but fruits and nuts as a reference to some strange, weird people because there if you say that a person is a fruit or a nut you are saying that he are a little strange. That’s the reputation that California has.


Let’s talk about … Proverbs!

Proverb is a famous saying that people use usually in order to express a certain opinion a suggestion or advice that you give someone and every language has its own proverbs that people use. They are sayings that are old and everyone knows what they mean.
Let’s see the meaning of the well known proverb "To kill two birds with one stone". The idea is that we have a stone in order to kill a bird so to kill two birds with one stone means that you are trying to do more than one thing at the same time. Suppose that I need to get gasoline for my car and I also need to buy milk. Well, there’s a gas station, a place that sells gasoline, close to my house and it has what we would call a mini-mart; a little store where they sell very basic kind of food, milk and often alcohol, beer and so forth. Well I decided to kill two birds with one stone and I’m going to go to the gas station and fill up my gasoline tank and I’m going to go to the mini-mart and buy some milk so by doing one thing, going to the gas station, I’m able to accomplish two goals that I have.
Another expression is "The early bird gets the worm". Worms are usually small maybe one or two inches usually brown or black and they crawl on the ground and they are things that birds eat. Birds eat worms and it means that the person, who gets up early or arrives to a place early, will get the best selection of whatever is available. So if there’s a store that’s selling, for example, I-Pods very cheap and you want to get an I-Pod you better go to the store early in the day because the early bird gets the worm, meaning the person who goes early, will get the best selection or the best items that are available.
There are lots of others well known proverbs like: "Better late than never", "Necessity is the mother of invention", "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and so forth.


Let’s talk about … Interjections!

Interjections are words like "geez", "aha" and they express some sort of strong emotion.
We can say Geez!, Man!, Whoa!, if I am really surprised with something.
If we make a mistake or if we do something wrong but not serious we say: Oops!
When we are reacting to something we don’t like, something that’s bad, ugly or negative we say: Ugh!
When we want to scare someone we say: Boo! We say that word boo and we are supposed to scare someone.
Aha! is what you say when you find a solution to solve a problem that you were working on it. Aha! I have the solution. We can also use that word when we are talking to someone and we think they are not telling the truth and so when we ask them questions and they finally tell us the truth we may say: Aha! Now I understand.
The word duh! is used when we want to say that something is obvious.
Oh-oh! You say oh-oh!; When something goes wrong, when someone makes a mistake. It’s a sign that something bad has happened.
Ouch! You say ouch when you hurt yourself; you may cut yourself or hit your hand against the table accidentally and you hurt.
Whew! You make that sound when you are relieved; when something bad was going to happen but it doesn’t happen so you say whew as a relief.
Brr! You say it when you are cold.
D’oh! It’s said when you feel stupid, for example, you can say: I forgot to turn it on. D’oh!
It’s something you say when you do something stupid or something wrong and what you did was not very smart or intelligent.


Let’s talk about … Minnesota!

Minnesota is located in a very north part of the US right in the middle that is called upper mid west and it’s on the border of Canada, the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Minnesota is known for a couple of things in the US, probably one of the most famous things is that people have a very distinctive accent. There’s a movie called Fargo and it’s actually about people in Minnesota. Fargo is a city in North Dakota next to Minnesota.
The people of Minnesota have a very distinctive accent it’s usually with a lot of long "oooos". People say: Minnesooota yah, you betcha! You betcha! is an expression that you hear and people associate or relate to Minnesota. You betcha! Means you bet you, that sometimes means yes. For example if someone says: It’s raining out! You say: You betcha!
So that’s one thing that Minnesota is famous for but it’s famous for other things. The singer Bob Dylan was born and raised in Minnesota.
Minnesota is in the North so it’s very cold and it has a lot of snow and people associate Minnesota with cold weather sports such as hockey. Many of the members of Olympic hockey team come from Minnesota.


Let’s talk about … Spring Break!

Spring break is the same as spring vacation and in public and private schools, elementary schools, high schools and universities usually take at least one and sometimes two weeks of vacation. Usually one week for most schools and this a very popular time for families and for students to travel somewhere.
There has developed in the US the tradition of spring break especially for high school and college students and they usually go to somewhere warm like a beach and quite honestly they do a lot of party; they do a lot of drinking, dancing and things that go with that and it’s been something of a problem in some places because the high school students and college students will get sometimes very rowdy making a lot of noise yelling , screaming and many of the places where these students go for spring break sometimes have problems with the police.
Typically the spring break is related to Easter and passes over seasons and some of the popular places where students like to go are Florida, Orlando, Miami, and Daytona Beach or Palm Beach where they like to rest sitting on the sun getting a tan. There are other places they like to go, as for example, California going to San Diego and sometimes even to Los Angeles. They also like to go to some resorts in Mexico like Cancun, Acapulco. Mexico is very popular for students because in Mexico you only have to be 18 years old to drink alcohol legally instead of being 21like in the US so if the student likes to drink and they usually do, Mexico is the best to have fun.


Let’s talk about … The Movie Rating System!

In US there is an association called MPAA that is supposed to tell people who want to go see the movie, what kind of movie and what age this movie is appropriated for.
The rating system uses letters to classify movies and it begins with G for general and a G rated movie is a movie that anyone can go see; it’s ok for children, for adults, no problems any age can go see these movies so cartoons, for example, are usually G rated.
The next rating is PG and PG stands for Parental Guidance. Here the parents should be careful about taking especially young children to this movie.
The next is PG 13 and it’s a movie that anyone under thirteen should see because it may cause a problem so parents should think very carefully about weather taking their children to see it. There are maybe sexual content in the movie, there are maybe very violent or some vulgar or dirty language, those are sort of things that would give a movie a PG 13.
The next rating is an R and R is for restricted. This means that anyone under the age 18 needs to have a parent or an adult to go with them because R rated movie is the most violent, the most mature scenes and ideas and language.
The next rating which is Unseen 17, no one under eighteen can go see these movies even if their parents are with them and says it’s ok and these are movies that there are strong sexual or violent scenes; they are not pornographic movies that are rated as X rated movies, but people are nude and you have to be 18 to go and see those movies. In US if you are 18 you are considered an adult and you can drive, you can vote but you can’t drink alcohol.


Let’s talk about … The State of Illinois!

Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, is famous for several things. The most important thing that Illinois is known for is the city of Chicago which is one of the largest cities in the USA. It is located in the very north part of the state and it’s actually located by a big lake called Lake Michigan. There are five lakes that are called the Great lakes between Canada and USA.
Chicago is called the windy city because of the breeze coming from Lake Michigan and is also famous for its food particularly for the barbecued ribs, the beef ribs and the pork ribs are really delicious.

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You must face the music! Assuma a responsabilidade!

Encare a musica, significa assumir a responsabilidade por alguma coisa.

Tom teve que assumir a responsabilidade por dirigir rapido demais.
Nos dizemos musica para os nossos ouvidos quando ouvimos boas noticias.
Os resultados soaram como musica para os ouvidos de Susan.

Money que e good nois num have !

Na giria inglesa ha muitas palavras para dinheiro tal como "bread" and "dough".

Um dolar americano e chamado de "buck".
No Canada eles chamam um dolar de "loonie".
No Reino Unido eles chamam um pound de "quid".

Mas nao importa qual a palavra que voce use para dinheiro. EU NAO TENHO NENHUM!

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