Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 08 - Reading and vocabulary for the textbook Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Look at these expressions from the text. Can you guess the meaning of the words and phrases in bold?

Answer

  1. we hit the bars in ... → (informal) go to bars
  2. to be outrageous → to be extremely unusual. shocking and slightly amusing
  3. to make excuses → to invent reasons for your actions (which often hide your real intentions)
  4. what he's up to → (informal) if you are 'up to something', you are doing something secret or something you should not be doing
  5. we all head down to ... → if you 'head' somewhere, you go or travel towards it
  6. a foe → an enemy
  7. it's our way → it's a custom / normal behaviour in our culture
  8. the mainland → the main / large area of land that forms a country, compared to the islands near it which are part of the same country