Answer — Exercise 2
12 - Vocabulary·New Headway Advanced - Workbook
Question
Listen to the lines and reply, using the words 1-10 below with their metaphorical meaning. Then listen and check / compare.
Answer
- Don't worry, it'll be a breeze!
- No, sorry, I'm snowed under with work already.
- Yeah, it feels like cloud hanging over me at the moment.
- It just came to me in a flash.
- No, the journalists gave him a really good grilling.
- Yes. It meant that it all ended on a really sour note.
- Yes, it's gone back to being a hot topic at the moment.
- Me neither. He seems a shady character.
- Yes, it's certainly given me some food for thought.
- Yes. It was a whirlwind romance!