Money
If you pay 10% less than a full price, you get a 10%...
to get a discount
an impulse purchase
to listen __ music
TO
What expressions do we use when we want to say:
1: "me also yes"
2: "me also no"
1: me too
2: me (n)either
When someone's job is making sales, and they get a percentage of each sale instead of a fixed monthly salary, we say they work...
to work on commission
When we have less and less of something, we can say we are...
to be running out of sth
to __ a picture (photography)
TAKE
List at least 3 synonyms of "go up" for describing trends:
increase, grow, rise, climb, skyrocket
An expression that means "to borrow money from a bank":
to take out a loan
When we decide to stop buying things for a month/year, we can say we are going on a...
to go on a no-buy (month/year/etc.)
to be addicted __ sth
TO
List at least 3 synonyms for "go down" for describing trends:
decrease, decline, fall, drop, plummet, plunge
When you had some costs that you can "put" on your taxes to pay less, we say you can...
to deduct sth on your taxes
A verb that means "to spend a lot of money on something because it's more luxurious or better quality, etc":
to splurge on sth
to __ pressure on someone (make someone feel pressured)
PUT
Describe a complicated issue by listing problems related to it:
(suggestions: the wealth gap, the environment, overconsumption, etc.)
Where do I even begin! First of all, (...); not to mention (...); and then there's (...); and that's before we even get to (...); and on top of that (...).
A modern idiom that means "this job pays very little, the salary is very small":
it pays peanuts
A modern idiom that means "companies competing for dominance by cutting quality, safety, and becoming worse and worse for consumers and employees":
a race to the bottom
to __ attention __ sth (be attentive)
PAY, TO
What's the difference between "could have", "was supposed to" and "had to"?
could have = a deduction about the past / speculation about a diffetent outcome
was supposed to = an instruction/expectation in the past
had to = a need/order in the past