Geometry for real

In today’s posts I would like to introduce some English idioms (although we can use many of them in Spanish) to explain and understand in more depth ideas about geometric figures. Here we find a list of ‘geometric idioms’ and some other mathematic expressions. Teen love triangle in Twilight. Geometric idioms A u-turn > Un giro de 180º It means a 180-degree turn , a radical turn , a complete turnaround , a complete turn in the opposite direction . It is quite visual because the form of the ‘u’ gives you the whole idea with just hearing, painting or writing it.  Look at it from a [fresh, new] angle > Depende del ángulo por el que se mire Maybe, inside a square you only have a 90º angle, but outside, you have what is left… which means that you have a 270º angle! ‘He is so square!’ > Una persona conservadora A person old-fashioned or conservative. This sense of the word “square” originated with the American jazz community in the 1940s,