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Idiomatic expressions. Review 2.
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In 1991, inventor Travis Baylis saw a TV documentary showing how the lack of communications infraestructure in rural Africa was an obstacle to the promotion of healthcare and disease prevention there. Healthcare workers were coming up against a brick wall in their effortsto use education to stop the spread of deadly illnesses. Baylis immediately saw a way to address the issue : provide low-cost radios to rural populations. The problem would be powering them.
Taking up the challengue
the lack of communication...
was an obstable to the promotion...
come up against (=encounter) a brick wall (wall made of bricks)
be like talking to a brick wall
to hit a brick wall ( figurative) meet an obstacle
to take (sth) up: aceptar, comenzar
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