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🔥Fight fire with fire
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Hello everyone!
Last week we wrote about ‘fighting’ illnesses.
This made me think of the other times we use this in English.
For example, when people talk about their optimal weight they speak of their ‘fighting weight’. This is the weight they would be if they had to compete.
If something has a reasonable opportunity to be successful we say that it has a ‘fighting chance’.
Girona have a fighting chance of winning La Liga
Or maybe you have a friend with a ‘fighting spirit’ - someone who doesn’t give up easily.
Or if someone is unfair or unethical when playing sport you could say they are ‘fighting dirty’. Sergio Ramos comes to mind 😠.
Politicians talk of ‘fighting crime’ (reducing), and people protesting are often ‘fighting for a cause’.
My favourite is ‘fighting fire with fire’. It’s the same in Spanish, isn’t it?
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People fighting for peace
This week’s 3 tips:
SOMETHING TO AVOID 🫣
🤦🏻♀️ ‘No is the same’
No es, or no está cannot be translated as ‘no is’.
✅ ‘It isn’t the same’
‘Is’ becomes ‘isn’t’ in the negative.
It isn’t the same.
Or in the plural…
They aren’t the same
SOMETHING DIFFICULT 🤔
📰 What does the headline mean?
To axe - To reduce drastically (Think of using an axe - hacha)
Staff - El personal
Despite - A pesar de
Soaring - Increasing very quickly to a high level
Spotify will drastically reduce 20% of its employees even though it has very high subscriber growth
SOMETHING TO WATCH 👀
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