Cover of the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 12 - Vocabulary for the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook with authors Liz Soars, John Soars and Paul Hancock from Oxford University Press

Question

Listen to the lines and reply, using the words 1-10 below with their metaphorical meaning. Then listen and check / compare.

Answer

  1. Don't worry, it'll be a breeze!
  2. No, sorry, I'm snowed under with work already.
  3. Yeah, it feels like cloud hanging over me at the moment.
  4. It just came to me in a flash.
  5. No, the journalists gave him a really good grilling.
  6. Yes. It meant that it all ended on a really sour note.
  7. Yes, it's gone back to being a hot topic at the moment.
  8. Me neither. He seems a shady character.
  9. Yes, it's certainly given me some food for thought.
  10. Yes. It was a whirlwind romance!