Author: Torsten PetersPublisher:
ISBN: 9781717819826
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Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Discover English idioms and their matching Spanish expressions in more than 40 memorable and cheerful illustrations. This is not a standard textbook. It's a book for language lovers and learners who want to explore and live a language. In this book you can browse through 46 idioms, 23 English idioms and their 23 Spanish similar expressions. Each idiom also has its literal translation in the other language and is illustrated by the talented graphic artist Galih Windu. This book is the brainchild of some friends living in Brussels. We often sat together and enjoyed the fact that languages sometimes have completely different ways to say the same thing. And Torsten Peters asked himself: Why not note this down and make funny illustrations? Language experts and -lovers will enjoy the illustrations and may still discover some new and amusing idioms. For language learners our idioms can be the key to really discover, enjoy and live the new language. And children will love the illustrations and become curious to discover languages. You will enjoy reading the Spanish equivalent expressions for these idioms:It's raining cats and dogsThe straw that broke the camel's neckTo have goose pimplesTo call a spade a spadeTo have a frog in the throatTo leave no stone unturnedTo pull someone's legIn two shakes of a lamb's tailA storm in a tea cupTo stick your oar inThis is not my cup of teaBetter a bird in the hand than two in the bushLike a bull in a china shopTo cry your eyes outTo set the cat among the pigeonsTo skate on thin iceTo throw money down the drainTo pull your socks upTo have bats in the belfryThat's another kettle of fishTo kill two birds with one stoneTo stand somebody upBlind as a bat
