Hope all well over there, and looking forward to seeing you soon... Over here we've had a relatively quiet week, the highlight of which was going out for an all-you-an-eat fondue extravaganza for our 3-year anniversary. As well as the standard cheese-and-bread variety there were meat skewers in boiling wine (!), plus chocolate AND caramel fondues for desert, with an assortment of fruit and cakes. Getting up to leave was a struggle, put it that way.
Elsewhere I've got my hands on my driver's licence proper, hit a purple patch of scoring at the footy, and sampled sonhos near the Paulista at the weekend - basically a fancy doughnut plied with creamy fillings and, in my case, lemon ice cream. Would recommend.
Here's yer compilation for the week, and today's expression literally translates as "to kill hunger", as in, "to fill the gap". Usually used as a post-prandial question ("matou fome?", or "so, did that meal KILL HUNGER?"), and the same format can be applied to scratching a proverbial itch ("matar vontade", or "to kill desire") or seeing someone for the first time in ages ("matar saudades" / "killing, er, saudades").
UPDATE: I've been told there's another variant on the phrase, for when you're done eating something you had a particular craving for: "matou o que estava te matando?" / "did you kill what was killing you?".
UPDATE: I've been told there's another variant on the phrase, for when you're done eating something you had a particular craving for: "matou o que estava te matando?" / "did you kill what was killing you?".
And I'm spent.
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