to be a fatso
- Fuente de la expresión
- Gran Diccionario Oxford (inglés-español, español-inglés)
- Contexto
- In little or no time at all, Jilly Farina comes to see that her mentor is not merely a country fair trickster. He has traveled over the world. He practices yoga exercises, regularly uses a stomach plunger to examine the contents of his own insides and matches the miracles of Jesus and Moses. However, Millroy was not always capable of magic. Once he was a fatso too. "I was trapped inside my huge body," he says. "I was blinded by the darkness of my body, in a limitless wilderness of insensible fat. I was miserable." He tells Jilly, "I had a vastation of the person I had been -- not recently but long ago, and I saw myself as a child of 6 -- healthy, happy, full of hope, able to work magic. Gifted. Innocent."
- Tipo de fuente
- newspaper
- Título de la fuente
- New York Times [online] - Books
- Año
- 1997
- Web
- www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/08/reviews/theroux-millroy.html
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- Sin definir
- Frecuencia
- Sin definir