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

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 05 - Listening and vocabulary for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Listen again and complete the idioms in bold below. Can you guess their meaning?

Answer

  1. fall hopelessly in love with - fall deeply in love with
  2. keep an eye out for - watch out for
  3. economical with the truth - not telling the full truth
  4. take with a pinch of salt - not treat as entirely true
  5. little white lies - small lies that are not seriously dishonest
  6. stretch the truth - say things that are definitely wrong and unlikely