Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 11 - Word play for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Complete the sentences with these phrases. Underline other alliterative phrases in seven of the sentences.

Answer

  1. stop the rot
  2. love lost
  3. bite the bullet
  4. doom and gloom
  5. on the tip of my tongue
  6. peer pressure
  7. the lap of luxury
  8. reserve the right
  9. give as good as she gets
  10. jump the gun

The examples of other alliterative phrases in the sentences are:

  1. deeply disappointing
  2. meeting of minds
  3. break the bank
  4. far from it
  5. –
  6. –
  7. same old story
  8. strictly speaking
  9. –
  10. simply superb