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The key answer of exercise 2b

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.3 - Vocabulary development for the textbook Navigate Advanced C1 - Workbook with authors Julie Moore from Oxford University Press

Question

Decide which verbs in the box can used in the idioms 1-6 from exercise 2a. Which verbs change the meaning of the idioms?

Answer

  1. stand (out like a sore thumb)
  2. move with (the times)
  3. lay (eyes on sb.)
  4. put (a dent in sth.)
  5. put aside (sth. for a rainy day)
  6. charge (the earth)

The meaning changes in 2 keep up / move with the times and 6 cost / charge the earth.

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