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Unit Two. Steps to Understanding Culture. VI. Bonus for Eager Learners - страница 47.

Условие.

B. Read the text and think of a situation where you can use any "moon idiom".

“To be over the moon” is a very old idiom that probably appeared as far back as the seventeenth century. The idiom can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary (1780) which gives an example of its usage. At that time the idiom may have been a common and popular expression.

In the middle of the century the idiom found its way into the nursery rhyme:

High (Hey), diddle, diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jump’d over the moon;

The little dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Both the idiom and the nursery rhyme have survived till nowadays for nearly 300 years! “To be over the moon” has firmly established itself in the language of football players and commentators.

The moon appears in a number of other popular English idioms. For instance, we say “many moons ago” when we want to say that something happened a long time ago. “To moon about” or “to moon around” means to do nothing useful or important and “to moon over somebody” — to think about someone.

Решение.

Решение 2.

B. Прочитайте текст и придумайте ситуацию, в которой вы можете использовать любую "лунную идиому".

Ответ:

When my parents gave me a puppy for my birthday, I was over the moon! (Когда родители подарили мне щенка на день рождения, я был на седьмом небе от счастья!)