The key answer of exercise 6
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - Accident-prone for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning
Question
Work in pairs. Discuss what you think the words and phrases in italics from each conversation mean in the context.
Answer
- business here means ‘strange or controversial thing that happened’
- freaked me out here means ‘made me feel really unsettled / uncomfortable’
- sneaked off here means ‘to go quietly so people don’t notice’; the loo is an informal word for the toilet; bashing here means ‘hitting it so that it is in place’
- to top the whole thing off is used here to introduce the last of several bad events
- smart is used ironically here – normally it means ‘clever’, but here it means ‘stupid’
- stumbled here means ‘walked unsteadily’
- just my luck is used ironically to mean ‘I always have bad luck’
- weren’t too happy is used to mean his teeth were painful too
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