A goat roper is a wannabe rancher or a cowboy poser. Goat ropers have the 4x4 pickup and the cowboy hat, but no cattle, horses, brain, or land.
> I really could use a pick-up truck now and then, but I don't want people to think I'm a goat roper.

I hate mowing my lawn, said Gil. Every week I have to mow my lawn. Every week for six months I have to mow my lawn. What can I do? You should dig it up, said Brenda. Take out all the grass. Pave your yard. Make a concrete yard. Then you wont have to

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Now, Words and Their Stories, a program from VOA Learning English. On this program, we take English expressions and explain where they came from and how to use them. In all languages, animals often find themselves in the center of many common express

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One day a fox fell into a well and could not scramble out again.The water was not very deep,but the sides of the well were smoothand were covered with slippery moss so that every time the fox struggled up a few inches,he slipped down again with

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One day a fox fell into a well, he could not scramble out again. The water was ont very deep, but the size of the well was move and recovered with slippery mass. So that every time the fox struggle up a few inches he slipped down again with the spla

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The Goat-Calf Once a Leopard and a Jackal came to a village. The Leopard caught a goat, and the Jackal caught a cow. They brought the goat and the cow back. The Leopard put the goat in his field, and the Jackal put the cow in his field. The Leopard w

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The Goat Goat - Chinese Zodiac AnimalBirth Years: 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027, 2039, 2051 Compatible with: Rabbit and Horse Birthstone: Sapphire Precious Flower: Larkspur Western Equivalent: Cancer Strengths: artistic, compassionat

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