Answer for exercise 6
The solution for exercise 6 in chapter 16 - Accident-prone of Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book by Carol Nuttall and Amanda French
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