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''Set you back on your heels" nghĩa là gì?
26 Dec, 2019
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"Set/rock (someone) back on (someone's) heels" nghĩa là khiến ai bất ngờ hoặc sửng sốt.
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But there are some surprises that may just set you back on your heels in wonder. Much differently than fish like halibut (cá bơn lưỡi ngựa) or salmon (cá hồi), sharks “shrug their shoulders” to swallow. And, so do we humans.
La Jolla Playhouse’s area premiere of “Rock Band” brings Yee — a University of California San Diego grad turned national playwriting sensation — back to town with her most celebrated piece (so far). And it’s a piece that manages both to get in your face and set you back on your heels.
Hats in the air and “Olé!” for the In Series team that has delivered an inspired staging of an extremely challenging one-act opera, Goyescas. Written in 1915 by Enrique Granados, it that will confront you with its energetic vitality, its celebration of life and at the same time, set you back on your heels with its tragic ironies (tình huống trớ trêu đầy kịch tính).
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