Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.2 - Thinking ahead for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Read the emails again and match the underlined words / phrases to the definitions (1-12).

Answer

  1. (what) you're up to
  2. crop up
  3. tied up
  4. (have something) lined up
  5. put my feet up
  6. get out of (something)
  7. call off
  8. snowed under
  9. fall through
  10. go ahead
  11. at a loose end
  12. wind down