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too old (not in use anymore), which are still in use and which are too far from the initial meaning

Meaning: to lose one's temper

Expressions:

1. to fall/fly into passion;

2.to fly/go/slip off the handle;

3.to run wild;

4.to lose one’s hair;

5.to take the huff;

6.to get the breeze up;

7.to lose one’s goat;

8.to get one’s rag out;

9.to lose it;

10. to go ballistic

Thank you.

By the way, this is not homework. I am not a native speaker of English, I have never been to any of the English-speaking countries, therefore I need native speakers to answer this question.

Any ideas? It worked perfectly until 3 weeks ago when, no matter the program selected by me (I usually turn the knob to program 8) it take program 1. The washing machine is a little over 2 years old.

Would you, please, take a look at this very short text and answer a few questions? It's NOT homework!!!?

"When I was twelve I was smoking. I was smoking what had been left in the packs from back when I was eleven. And we was playing football in the schoolyard all day till dusk. That’s the one thing I liked about our school: that it had a yard. After the fools who didn’t have no medical exemptions was leaving home, there we came, the ones passionate about real sport, not about “on the double”, walking squats and other silly things. That is why I didn't join the PE classes no more, ‘cause, when it came to walking squats, they was making fun of my being short and called the exercise “walking Marean”."

Q's:

1. Where could the action take place?

2. Does the language seem authentic?

3. Does the world depicted seem strange?

4. What can you tell about the main character, the one that is also the story teller? (anything: age, education etc.)

Thank you.

THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT. THE TEXT IS WRITTEN BY A STILL NOT FAMOUS WRITER AND IT CANNOT BE FOUND IN ANY TEXT BOOKS.

Thanks again.

Would you, please, take a look at this very short text and answer a few questions? It's NOT homework!!!?

"When I was twelve I was smoking. I was smoking what had been left in the packs from back when I was eleven. And we was playing football in the schoolyard all day till dusk. That’s the one thing I liked about our school: that it had a yard. After the fools who didn’t have no medical exemptions was leaving home, there we came, the ones passionate about real sport, not about “on the double”, walking squats and other silly things. That is why I didn't join the PE classes no more, ‘cause, when it came to walking squats, they was making fun of my being short and called the exercise “walking Marean”."

Q's:

1. Where could the action take place?

2. Does the language seem authentic?

3. Does the world depicted seem strange?

4. What can you tell about the main character, the one that is also the story teller? (anything: age, education etc.)

Thank you.

THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT. THE TEXT IS WRITTEN BY A STILL NOT FAMOUS WRITER AND IT CANNOT BE FOUND IN ANY TEXT BOOKS.

Thanks again.

"When I was twelve I was smoking. I was smoking what had been left in the packs from back when I was eleven. And we were playing football in the schoolyard all day till dusk. That’s the one thing I liked about our school: that it had a yard. After the fools who didn’t have no medical exemptions was leaving home, there we came, the ones passionate about real sport, not about “on the double”, walking squats and other silly things. That is why I did no longer join the PE classes ‘cause, when it came to walking squats, they were making fun of my being short and called the exercise “walking Marean”."

Q's:

1. Where could the action take place?

2. Does the language seem authentic?

3. Does the world depicted seem strange?

4. What can you tell about the main character, the one that is also the story teller? (anything: age, education etc.)

Thank you.

THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT. THE TEXT IS WRITTEN BY A STILL NOT FAMOUS WRITER AND IT CANNOT BE FOUND IN ANY TEXT BOOKS.

Thanks again.

"When I was twelve I was smoking. I was smoking what had been left in the packs from back when I was eleven. And we were playing football in the schoolyard all day till dusk. That’s the one thing I liked about our school: that it had a yard. After the fools who didn’t have no medical exemptions was leaving home, there we came, the ones passionate about real sport, not about “on the double”, walking squats and other silly things. That is why I did no longer join the PE classes ‘cause, when it came to walking squats, they were making fun of my being short and called the exercise “walking Marean”."

Q's:

1. Where could the action take place?

2. Does the language seem authentic?

3. Does the world depicted seem strange?

4. What can you tell about the main character, the one that is also the story teller? (anything: age, education etc.)

Thank you.

THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT. THE TEXT IS WRITTEN BY A STILL NOT FAMOUS WRITER AND IT CANNOT BE FOUND IN ANY TEXT BOOKS.

Thanks again.

In my language there is a certain cacophony (ca-ca, like in MoniCA CArlinsky) that people try to avoid at all costs (because the four letters make the word "caca" which is a nursery word for "feces", just like in English).

Thank you.

In my language there is a certain cacophony (ca-ca, like in MoniCA CArlinsky) that people try to avoid at all costs (because the four letters make the word "caca" which is a nursery word for "feces", just like in English).

Thank you.

In my language there is a certain cacophony (ca-ca, like in MoniCA CArlinsky) that people try to avoid at all costs (because the four letters make the word "caca" which is a nursery word for "feces", just like in English).

Thank you.

"How careless is the birds!" "...their babies is falling..." "Why don't they build them nests closer to the ground?"

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"How careless is the birds!" "...their babies is falling..." "Why don't they build them nests closer to the ground?"

Thank you.

reading it. Thank you.

"I sometimes stop and call to mind the customs and people that used to be in my part of the world at the time when I had, so to speak, just begun to put a foot over the threshold of boyhood in my home in the village of X. It faced the town on the other side of the waters of the River Y.

Moreover, X in those days was not just a village of ne'erdo-wells but a prosperous and ancient village of freeholders, its reputation and standing having long been assured, with farmers who knew their job, with stalwart young men and comely girls who could swing the shuttle, too, so that the village would buzz with the sound of looms on every side. It had a fine church and outstanding clergy, church elders and parishioners, who were a credit to their village." (from Memories of My Boyhood" by I.C.)

Does the world depicted seem alien to you? Does it sound familiar? Could you tell where this place is?

Thank you

reading it. Thank you.

"I sometimes stop and call to mind the customs and people that used to be in my part of the world at the time when I had, so to speak, just begun to put a foot over the threshold of boyhood in my home in the village of X. It faced the town on the other side of the waters of the River Y.

Moreover, X in those days was not just a village of ne'erdo-wells but a prosperous and ancient village of freeholders, its reputation and standing having long been assured, with farmers who knew their job, with stalwart young men and comely girls who could swing the shuttle, too, so that the village would buzz with the sound of looms on every side. It had a fine church and outstanding clergy, church elders and parishioners, who were a credit to their village." (from Memories of My Boyhood" by I.C.)

Does the world depicted seem alien to you? Does it sound familiar? Could you tell where this place is?

Thank you

reading it. Thank you.

"I sometimes stop and call to mind the customs and people that used to be in my part of the world at the time when I had, so to speak, just begun to put a foot over the threshold of boyhood in my home in the village of X. It faced the town on the other side of the waters of the River Y.

Moreover, X in those days was not just a village of ne'erdo-wells but a prosperous and ancient village of freeholders, its reputation and standing having long been assured, with farmers who knew their job, with stalwart young men and comely girls who could swing the shuttle, too, so that the village would buzz with the sound of looms on every side. It had a fine church and outstanding clergy, church elders and parishioners, who were a credit to their village." (from Memories of My Boyhood" by I.C.)

Does the world depicted seem alien to you? Does it sound familiar? Could you tell where this place is?

Thank you

"something that doesn't make any sense". For example, the expression "fara cap si fara coada" in my language (word for word translation: "without a head and without a tail") is close to what I am looking for, but I need an equivalent expression in English. "Without a head and without a tail" also means that a job is done without a plan, it is chaotic.

Thank you .

"something that doesn't make any sense". For example, the expression "fara cap si fara coada" in my language (word for word translation: "without a head and without a tail") means "a job poorly done, something that doesn't make any sense."

Thank you .

Please, read the fragment and answer the questions below. I have posted this before, but I need more answers?

Please, concentrate on the language more that on the content (the author has a rather strange sense of humor).

“Marean, when I grow I’ll be a physician”, said Medelin trying one of his best, and then took a curious look over his tennis shoes with untied laces at his Eugenia* which was falling 10 stories to crash with a noise against a Dacia** in the parking.

“Medelin, I’ll be a truck driver on a Raba***. You’ll stay in the hospital, like a fool, cutting through peoples’ guts and taking their brains out through their belly buttons, while I’ll be feeling the wind in my haircut and whistling at chicks all day long and I’ll have money ‘cause I’ll steal diesel and I’ll be paid off to make unregistered transports for losers”.

“Marean, you think small”, said Medelin with a sigh, throwing pebbles, bored silly, at the children who were playing hopscotch ten stories below. “I’ll be saving lives while you’ll be sweating like a grease monkey all your life”.

“Be a life guard if you want to save lives, fool”, I said full of myself, as I always am when I find a good come back. Which is very rarely.

* a brand of biscuits

** a brand of automobiles

*** a brand of trucks

Questions:

1. Does the language used sound natural?

2. Does the scene bring any memories back from your own childhood?

3. Where do you think the action takes place (what state, country or continent)?

4. Are there any words or expressions that don't sound like English to you? Which are those?

4. Are you a native speaker of English? Where from?

Thanks a lot!

Please, read the fragment and answer the questions below. I have posted this before, but I need more answers?

Please, concentrate on the language more that on the content (the author has a rather strange sense of humor).

“Marean, when I grow I’ll be a physician”, said Medelin trying one of his best, and then took a curious look over his tennis shoes with untied laces at his Eugenia* which was falling 10 stories to crash with a noise against a Dacia** in the parking.

“Medelin, I’ll be a truck driver on a Raba***. You’ll stay in the hospital, like a fool, cutting through peoples’ guts and taking their brains out through their belly buttons, while I’ll be feeling the wind in my haircut and whistling at chicks all day long and I’ll have money ‘cause I’ll steal diesel and I’ll be paid off to make unregistered transports for losers”.

“Marean, you think small”, said Medelin with a sigh, throwing pebbles, bored silly, at the children who were playing hopscotch ten stories below. “I’ll be saving lives while you’ll be sweating like a grease monkey all your life”.

“Be a life guard if you want to save lives, fool”, I said full of myself, as I always am when I find a good come back. Which is very rarely.

* a brand of biscuits

** a brand of automobiles

*** a brand of trucks

Questions:

1. Does the language used sound natural?

2. Does the scene bring any memories back from your own childhood?

3. Where do you think the action takes place (what state, country or continent)?

4. Are there any words or expressions that don't sound like English to you? Which are those?

4. Are you a native speaker of English? Where from?

Thanks a lot!

Please, concentrate on the language more that on the content (the author has a rather strange sense of humor).

“Marean, when I grow I’ll be a physician”, said Medelin trying one of his best, and then took a curious look over his tennis shoes with untied laces at his Eugenia* which was falling 10 stories to crash with a noise against a Dacia** in the parking.

“Medelin, I’ll be a truck driver on a Raba***. You’ll stay in the hospital, like a fool, cutting through peoples’ guts and taking their brains out through their belly buttons, while I’ll be feeling the wind in my haircut and whistling at chicks all day long and I’ll have money ‘cause I’ll steal diesel and I’ll be paid off to make unregistered transports for losers”.

“Marean, you think small”, said Medelin with a sigh, throwing pebbles, bored silly, at the children who were playing hopscotch ten stories below. “I’ll be saving lives while you’ll be sweating like a grease monkey all your life”.

“Be a life guard if you want to save lives, fool”, I said full of myself, as I always am when I find a good come back. Which is very rarely.

* a brand of biscuits

** a brand of automobiles

*** a brand of trucks

Questions:

1. Does the language used sound natural?

2. Does the scene bring any memories back from your own childhood?

3. Where do you think the action takes place (what state, country or continent)?

4. Are there any words or expressions that don't sound like English to you? Which are those?

4. Are you a native speaker of English? Where from?

Thanks a lot!

Please, read the fragment and answer the questions below. I have posted this before, but I need more answers?

Attention: all the language mistakes are meant to be there because one of the characters is not educated. The fragment is not written by me. It is taken from a satirical novel. Please, concentrate on the language more that on the content (the author has a rather strange sense of humor).

“Marean, when I grow I’ll be a physician”, said Medelin trying one of his best, and then took a curious look over his tennis shoes with untied laces at his Eugenia* which was falling 10 stories to crash with a noise against a Dacia** in the parking.

Paranthesis. To make a note: have you noticed that, when people plan plots, I mean when they’s deep in thoughts, they stare at one point in space, like hypnotized? I had heard so and, then, I saw this happening to the grownups, when I was 10. That was the best moment to pick their pockets. From my philosophyness: “When man thinks deep, he’s stupid.”

“Medelin, I’ll be a truck driver on a Raba***. You’ll stay in the hospital, like a fool, cutting through peoples’ guts and taking their brains out through their belly buttons, while I’ll be feeling the wind in my haircut and whistling at chicks all day long and I’ll have money ‘cause I’ll steal diesel and I’ll be paid off to make unregistered transports for losers”.

“Marean, you think small”, said Medelin with a sigh, throwing pebbles, bored silly, at the children who were playing hopscotch ten stories below. “I’ll be saving lives while you’ll be sweating like a grease monkey all your life”.

“Be a life guard if you want to save lives, fool”, I said full of myself, as I always am when I find a good come back. Which is very rarely.

“Do you know what the meaning of life is, Marean? You don’t know, ‘cause your old man hit you in the head one too many times and you grew up a bonehead”, said Medelin with a sigh. “Marean, do you know what you were before you were born?[...] People had other lives before being born to this world. I mean, maybe in the year a zillion six hundred I was an outlaw and, before that, I was Burebista**** and, before that, I was a Teutonic Knight!”

“Why would you be all those, dude? Then, what was I?”

“You? You were the same illiterate gypsy, fool!” Medelin shouted and then we split because the father of that girl with the broken head was coming to beat us.

* a brand of biscuits

** a brand of automobiles

*** a brand of trucks

**** a king who ruled about 2,000 years ago the population to the north of the river Danube, in Europe, where Romania is now

Questions:

1. Does the language used sound natural?

2. Does the scene bring any memories back from your own childhood?

3. Where do you think the action takes place (what state, country or continent)?

4. Are there any words or expressions that don't sound like English to you? Which are those?

4. Are you a native speaker of English? Where from?

Thanks a lot!