Cover of the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2B - On the tip of my tongue for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. -
  2. Read the extracts again. Which word ...?
  3. Look at the highlighted words in the extracts, which are all used metaphorically. What is their literal meaning?

Answer

b)

  1. alcohol
  2. a treadmill
  3. a girl
  4. a blockbuster
  5. a cupboard

c)

  • pounce on = move suddenly forward in order to catch something
  • borrow = take and use something that belongs so somebody else
  • pick up = take hold of something and lift it up
  • resurrect = bring a dead person back to life