Expressões com a palavra TRACK

Hello, my friends. How are you? Today I have a brand-new post for you about a word that may not be very familiar in your ears. The word is track. Not veryt recently, Lady Gaga released a song whose lyrics includes something like you're on the right track. What does that mean? It means she's telling you not to worry because you're doing the right thing, you're on the right track. If you want to learn this and other expressions with the word track today, keep on reading!

I have plenty of them actually, so I'll try not to make you overwhelmed with them. To start off, let's first try to understand what track itself means. Among several definitions Dictionary.com provided me with, one of them says tracks are footprints or other marks left by an animal, person, or vehicle. Can you picture what track is now? if not, just take a look at the picture to the side and you'll get it.

Tracks make me remember of those times I bring mud into my house on the bottom of my shoes and my mother yells: Don't track mud into the house! If your mother yelled that sentence to you, would you understand her? To track mud into a place is one of the most annoying things that can happen to a household. It means your shoes are dirty with mud and you're messing around the house with it, in other words, you're tracking mud into the house.

Now picture a classic scenario: You look for your can opener, but you never find it. Then you begin a hunt for it throuhout the entire house but to no avail. Only when you've already given up on finding it and are not even thinking about it anymore, there it is, at the most obvious place. While telling a friend what happened to you, you say: I spent the whole morning on the track of my can opener, but only found it when it didn't interest me anymore. When you're on track of someone or somethin, you're seeking it. I'm always on the track of my phone. I never know where I last put it. What about you? What or who are you always on the track of?

Now let's change the scenerio a litle bit: You must know that in order to be hired by some company, you have to show a very good resume containing all of your past achievement or failures. Let's suppose you're running for a position at a major company. Your application form's in very good shape, but soon you find out someone else with a strong track record filled your position. When someone has a strong track record in any field, it means he's perfect for that job or for a certain copany. It means he showed a good history of past achievements.

But let's still talk about the position you lost for someone else. Let's call him Fred. Suppose you find out Fred doesn't actually have a strong track record. In actuality, you have so much more experience than he and you don't understand why you were not chosen over him. You try to know a little bit more about Fred, and it doesn't take you much long until you find out he's got the inside track. That's why he won the contract. When someone has the inside track, it means he has an advantage over someone gained through special connections, special knowledge, or favoritism. Maybe Fred was the boss' close friend. No matter how much of a good professional you are, there's now way you'd get that contract instead of Fred.

Finally, let's talk about people that can only talk about one single subject. Doyou know someone like that? In Brazil, it's very common to find people who are obsessed with soccer. Wherever you find them, the very first thing they talk about is the last soccer match they watched on TV, or how well or badly some player performed. You can say people like that have one-track minds, that is, their minds think entirely or almost entirely about one subject.

Okay, that's it for today guys. I hope you liked it. See you next time!
Fontes: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/track, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/track?s=t