26.1.06

If the worst comes to the worst

If all the better alternatives are impossible or if the worst possible thing happens: "We'll have to close the whole business down, if the worst comes to the worst, and if there are no more orders."


18.1.06

Go fly a kite!

Slang, chiefly American Go away!: I'm tired of you telling us what to do, Goldie. Go fly a kite!

12.1.06

to have a skeleton in the cupboard

a skeleton in the cupboard (BrE) (also a skeleton in the closet NAmE, BrE)

(
informal)
something shocking, embarrassing, etc. that has happened to you or your family in the past that you want to keep secret

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11.1.06

Desmonta e ordenha-a!

ou como não se devem traduzir à letra os ditados populares.

10.1.06

Get off and milk it!

An expression shouted at someone who is riding a bicycle slowly.

in A Dictionary of Contemporary English. Pan Books

9.1.06

Any day of the week

Always and under any conditions: used to show that one would prefer to do or when one is sure of one's opinions: "I'd rather be on holiday in Florida any day of the week than stuck in this office all of the time." "I'm a far better footballer than he is, any day of the week."

in
A Dictionary of Contemporary English. Pan Books

6.1.06

LUZ

Talvez que noutro mundo, noutro livro,
tu não tenhas morrido
e talvez nesse livro não escrito
nem tu nem eu tenhamos existido

e tenham sido outros dois aqueles
que a morte separou e um deles
escreva agora isto como se
acordasse de um sonho que

um outro sonho (talvez eu),
e talvez então tu, eu, esta impressão
de estranhidão, de que tudo perdeu
de súbito existência e dimensão

e peso, e se ausentou,
seja um sonho suspenso que sonhou
alguém que despertou e paira agora
como uma luz algures de lado de fora.

MANUEL ANTÓNIO PINA (1943)
Os Livros

5.1.06

M y Life and My Love

M y Life and My Love

My life and my love, like a passing storm
Flashing, and clashing and thrashing about
No solace of heart, in me, tends to form
The brighter my day, the darker my doubt

My love's rainbow is scarcely seen by eye
Glowing, and flowing and growing in me
Till it fills and floods and shoots out my side
Far enough, high enough, so she can see

The storm recedes and is forever gone
Gliding, and striding, and hiding for good
So too my life, my love so nearly drawn
Much closer than any that ever could

Oh, pierce the soul, pierce the depth of her heart
Detecting, connecting, injecting me
Hand in hand, we're running to a new start
Where you, I and a world of love will be

William Shakespeare

Copyright ©2006 William Shakespeare

4.1.06

e que dizer das paragens de autocarro?

A limpeza é escassa e a publicidade tardia e com falta de equilíbrio

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3.1.06

de volta à terra da não sinalização

em Bruxelas colocaram este tipo de placas para os transeuntes que visitam a cidade a pé e procuram os locais com mais destaque.

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Em Angra, não temos necessariamente que copiar a forma, bastará copiar o intuito - informar, indicar com visibilidade ...