It´s really important to spend our time on useful things. Josh Coombes is a 29-year-old hairdresser who works in the streets of London, giving free haircuts to homeless people and encouraging people to help others, any way they can.
"If everyone, in every city, did one thing for nothing, we could change the world."
El verano y las vacaciones son momentos de descanso y esparcimiento, sin duda, pero no es razón para dejar de aprender cosas nuevas. Siempre hay espacio en la maleta para el conocimiento, por muy pequeña que sea esta. Sí es cierto que hay que integrar ese nuevo aprendizaje con algo de frescura y diversión, de una manera un poco diferente a la habitual.
Michael DiGiacomo, @happyenglishny en Instagram, te ofrece una manera original de aprender IDIOMS en inglés. Seguro que sus vídeos y su peculiar estilo no te dejará indiferente.
ON THE FENCE : unsure about the decision at hand. Undecided about something. "Mary is on the fence about going to London" "John is on the fence about dating Sarah or Kate"
fixing up a car to drive in it again searching for the water hoping for the rain up and up, up and up down upon the canvas, working meal to meal waiting for a chance to pick your orange field up and up, up and up see a pearl form, a diamond in the rough see a bird soaring high above the flood it’s in your blood, it’s in your blood underneath the storm an umbrella is saying sitting with the poison takes away the pain up and up, up and up it’s saying
we’re going to get it get it together right now going to get it get it together somehow going to get it get it together and flower oh oh oh oh oh oh we’re going to get it get it together I know going to get it get it together and flow going to get it get it together and go up and up and up
Meaning: Stop talking or making noise. Be quiet. "if you don't pipe down, we're turning this car around and going straight home!"
Origin:
On sailing ships signals were given to the crew by sounding the boatswain's pipe, a small whistle-like device. When the bosun "piped down" aboard ship, he blew the signal for the crew to retire from their tasks or formation and return belowdecks.
