EVIDENCE: COLOMBIAN CULTURAL AMBASSADOR

1. Expression: You are talking to me in chinese – are you talking to me in chinese?.

Example: When my cousin tells me about her chemistry classes, she is speaking to me in Chinese.

Meaning: This expression is used when a person talks about a topic that is unknown, or it is
not understood what is being talked about.

2. Expression: like to lick your fingers.

Example: She cooks very rich, like to lick your fingers.

Meaning: This expression is used when a food looks very delicious or appetizing and very
provocative.

3. Expression: Like fallen from the sky

Example: This market came at the time when I needed it most, like fallen from the sky.

Meaning: This expression is used when something unexpected good happens, which one
needs in a time of need.

4. Expression: That’s the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Example: My day was very bad but I was robbed when I got home, That’s the straw that broke the
camel’s back.

Meaning: This expression is used at the time when a series of inconveniences or problems add
up and the last one makes the person explode or does not endure situations and loses his
calm.

5. Expression: By between a rock and a hard place.

Example: I don't know whether to lie to my dad or my mom, i am by between a rock and a hard
place.

Meaning: This expression is used at the moment in which it is necessary to decide between
two important situations, but when taking one, the other will always bring some
inconvenience.

6. Expression: Let it be what God wants.

Example: the doctors say that I only have between one and two years to live, the truth Let it be
what God wants.

Meaning: This expression is used when you are in a difficult decision and nothing can be done
about it and everything is left to fate waiting for something good to happen.

7. Expression: Such a stick such a splinter.

Example: Your daughter has the same political tastes as you. Of such a stick such a splinter.

Meaning: This expression is used to refer to the fact that children resemble their parents and
that some action or gesture of the child is also made by their parents.

8. Expression: For yesterday, it's late.

Example: Dad: I need you to pay this receipt son.

Son: when?

Dad: for yesterday, it's late

Meaning: This expression is used to mention that something needs to be done or done
immediately, something that cannot be kept waiting and is urgent.