Answer — Exercise 5
08 - Reading and vocabulary·Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Look at these expressions from the text. Can you guess the meaning of the words and phrases in bold?
Answer
- we hit the bars in ... → (informal) go to bars
- to be outrageous → to be extremely unusual. shocking and slightly amusing
- to make excuses → to invent reasons for your actions (which often hide your real intentions)
- what he's up to → (informal) if you are 'up to something', you are doing something secret or something you should not be doing
- we all head down to ... → if you 'head' somewhere, you go or travel towards it
- a foe → an enemy
- it's our way → it's a custom / normal behaviour in our culture
- 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