Comments on: The Poor Beautiful Horse

By: Paul - Beguim

Paul - Beguim — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:49:18 +0000

Hi everyone.
And what about the proverb, ‘A horse for a Kingdom.’ Richard is soon unhorsed on the field at the climax of the battle, and utters the often-quoted line, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
And in Dutch language we do also know ;
‘men moet een gekregen/gegeven paard niet in de bek zien’ similar as ‘to look a gift horse in the mouth”
’Iemand over het paard tillen.’ Someone how can’t fulfill his task or promise.
‘Het paard achter de wagen spannen’ or someone how proves of incompetence. “to put the cart before the horse”
‘Paard en ruiter noemen’ speak freely without fear. ‘call man and horse’ Most of those expressions will be heard in political context.
‘Werken als een paard’, ‘zweten als een paard’; informal, do hard work and sweating enormously.
‘Het paard van Troje binnen halen/ inhalen’ Also called the Wooden Horse Greek myth the huge wooden hollow figure of a horse left outside Troy by the Greeks when they feigned retreat and dragged inside by the Trojans. The men concealed inside it opened the city to the final Greek assault. A trap intended to undermine an enemy. (TheFreeDictionary)

So long

By: Phuoc

Phuoc — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:48:43 +0000

In Viet Nam, there are lots of idioms about horse, but now I only remember two of them.
“Mã ?áo thành công”: Many years ago, in war, the soldiers often hold weapons in hand and seat on horse’s back to fight. And when we see horses come back, it means they are winners.
“M?t con ng?a ?au, c? tàu b? c?”: When a horse in herd is sick, other horses are not going to eat.
……
Where has Jeff been in three days, three nights ??? Oh maybe he has been to Viet Nam to travel, I guess, hehe…
Thank you, Dr Lucy, for a good topic and very funny story about Dr Jeff.
Best regards,

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:04:32 +0000

Good show Elena for the question
Kharesho: it is a Ruskin word to Elena
I used to fate a Russian girl
Some how ,Picked up the language

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:37:12 +0000

Betty ,
It is so true that the topic got us thinking.
In fact,Whatever our dear profs put down on the blog always makes us think about the topic at hand.
You are right! They are all good stimuli that make us think and learn new things.
This time around the discussed question is a real stimulus for all of us.
Speaking for myself,It makes me think about cruelty to animals.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:25:31 +0000

Smile is contagious; be a carrier.
Please don’t get upset if sometimes I try to be funny
I know it falls flat and it never fails ,yet, worth the try
Trying to be q carrier.
Peace out
Lucy you are the best!
And Jeff is the best of the best!

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:07:46 +0000

Lucy,
Hold your horses before they stamped:)
All of a sudden you threw at us lots of horse story:)

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:50:02 +0000

Tonight is the hockey night
The match is on
Toronto vs Russia
Toronto is pretty excited about it:)
Hockey fever is on
Jeff, u must be into Hockey as well, considering your home town.
We are a bunch of rowdy guys cheering for Toronto tonight in a local Irish bar.
The match starts at 730

By: emiliano

emiliano — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:51:48 +0000

A beautiful horse, that´s a dream to me since I was a little boy.
I have been on a horse five or six times beeing a young boy, and it´s really exciting, but if you want to have one living in a big city like me it´s impossible.
You need a lot of money and too much time to see the horse, feed him, and spend with the animal as much time as possible.

Always feeling myself as a person living in the wrong site.
Living in a farm, or a house surrouded by fields, trees, forest, mountains and a river, that´s my place.
Having a horse, or even more. A dog, or even two or three. Four or five cats going up and down.
That´s my site, not a flat in Madrid where I was born and spent my life.

Being a child I spent some sumer holidays at the country, whithout running water or water close, having to make fire with logs.
Sourronded by hens, pigs, cows, oxs, fruit orchards with apple trees, plum tress, dogs, cats, and a river…….that´s was the life I liked.
Not working as much as a farmer, it´s a very hard work…….I would like to have the house, the animals, and a lot of money to
support this kind of life.
May be painting?
Writing?
Now doing Pod Cast from home and having millions of contributors?
These kind of works would be nice to earn a lot of money and supporting the farm in the country.

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Lucy, Jeff´s story is very funny, but as long as I have been listening to him it´s just impossible for me to image him
in a situation like that.
No, I can´t.

Betty, don´t worry, I have the feeling Lucy is going to do English Cafes more often, we need her clear young voice
her good pronunciation, her american accent that to me is the best and also her good humor.

The difficult is always the first or the second and she has done it.
BRAVO for her and for Jeff letting her comrader to participate with him, Jeff you are really a generous man beside the
best teacher and the friend everybody would like to have.

Tania, how has been your Christmas?
Have you been too busy doing nice food for the family?
Too cold now at your beautiful Romania?

Take care dear friend.
emiliano.

By: Tania

Tania — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:36:52 +0000

Hi! “The horses do not die when the dogs want.”

By: egon salgueiro

egon salgueiro — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:00:51 +0000

Querida Lucy,

Esta é a melhor história que já ouvi por aí,
vc precisa colocá-la em um podecast,
por favor!!!
Please…