In a common day of class, correcting a composition, I've noticed that a student wrote: “She gave me the cake”. I immediately thought where the cake could be in that context, then, I realized that the student was trying to say that a person didn’t arrive where he/she was waiting, “giving him the cake”.
This is a common mistake in English, because the students don’t know that for many expressions in Portuguese there is another one totally different in English.
Give the cake is only one example.
When someone doesn’t appear in a meeting, we usually say in Portuguese that he/she gave us a cake. But in English the expression is “Stand somebody up”.
E.g.: “John stood me up at the mall”.
After all we laugh at the situation!!
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