Word of the day: Quaint / The wheels are turning

Word of the day

Quaint:  estranho, esquisito, singular, fantástico

Synonyms: bizarre, bizarro, cranky, crazy, curious, eccentric, erratic, far-out, funky, funny, kinky

“The fishing village was very quaint.”

“The writer talks about the quaint customs of the natives.”

(www.merriam-webster.com)

The wheels are turning: algo está acontecendo, algo está para acontecer ( e que vai causar algo, que vai iniciar algo), as coisas estavam de tal forma que

“By the late 1940s the wheels were turning that would make space flight possible by the end of the 1950s.”   (www.thefreedictionary.com)

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