Chapter 1
Last month I got pretty ..... -down and had to cancel all my plans.
a) up
b) run
c) upside
run down
To adore something very much (to derive pleasure from something) = to g___ a b___ o__ of___
and one more:
to k___ o____
to get a bang out of
Out of what do you get a bang?
to knock out (what knocks me out is the way he sings)
to be sore at someone - means...
a) to be happy
b) crazy
c) irritated and angry
c) irritated and angry
To chew the ____ - means: to talk, to chat
a) grass
b) rag
c) carpet
Rag
Is it easy to rile you off?
*to rile off means...
a) to talk into
b) to provoke
b) to provoke
1. What's another word for "money"?
2. What's another phrase to "start a conversation"?
1. dough
2. strike up a conversation
In a half-assed way .... What does it mean?
Have you ever done anything in a half assed way?
Someone does a job at say...50% the quality.
to ___ around* means to play, spend time in a silly, playful way
a) dog
b) horse
c) bear
b) to horse around
How about writing an essay for me? I'll be up the creek* if I don't do it.
*to be up the creek - what does it mean?
I'll be dead. The teacher will kill me.
What can take your mind off when you're having troubles?
...
1. She didn't give you a lot of h.... manure about what a great guy her father was. She probably knew what a
p..... s..... he was.
2. What's the synonym to " because of". Make any example with it.
1. horse / phony slob
2. On account of
To hit the ceiling... What does it mean? Make a sentence.
To become furious, to see red.
Don't gimme that!
What does it mean?
used in speech to show annoyance when someone tells one something that one does not believe or accept
a) lit
b) nice
c) sharp
a) & c)
Holden got an 1..... , because he 2.... 4 subjects.
1. fork / ax / knife
2. passed / flunked / resat
1. ax
2. flunked
He looks so nice, he's sharp as a tack.
He wanted to say something shrp as a tack to me.
*sharp as a tack - what does it mean?
Cool, nice.
Witty, wise.
When someone is flattering you, it means this person...
a) giving you compliments
b) explaining something
c) accusing you in something
To compliment excessively and often insincerely, especially in order to win favor.
To stop doing something is ....
to cut out / to give up
To shoot the ____ - to talk about something without giving much importance to it.
a) bull
b) horse
c) dog
to shoot the bull
I was supposed to go to the B-Day party, but the arrangements got all screwed up*.
*All the arrangements got all screwed up - what does it mean?
Everything went wrong.