Yesterday I came across an article at Huffington Post entitled La estrategia de vacunación europea pincha en hueso . This is a new idiom to me. According to Collins online dictionary, it means to come up against a brick wall . I found this definition in Spanish at Dual Texts : no conseguir lo que se pretende, fallar en el intento; encontrar oposición o dificultad en alguien o algo .  So it basically means to encounter obstacles . The article in the Huffington Post describes the many difficulties that the European Union is up against as it tries to vaccinate its population in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The obstacles occur in the manufacturing of the vaccine as well as transporting and distributing it. It sounds a lot like what has been happening here in the U.S. Well, getting back to pinchar en hueso , apparently it is a term derived from bullfighting. When the matador thrusts his sword into the bull's neck, he means to pierce the aorta to kill the bull. But, i...

 Today I became familiar with the Spanish term borrasca which means storm or tempest . I have just read an article at HUFFPOST titled Los 7 videos más exitosos que ha dejado Filomena . The borrasca   described in the article is Filomena , the historic snowstorm that slammed Madrid on January 9, 2021. Seven popular videos from social media are presented in the article. They are so cute! Before today, the only Spanish word that I knew to use for storm was tormenta , so I am glad to be able to expand my vocabulary! You can read the article here .