Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6 - A war of words for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Underline the words in each sentence that are part of the same metaphor. The first one is done for you.

Answer

  1. They’ve been engaged in a fierce price war which has hit profits.
  2. The party has recruited a huge army of volunteers for the campaign.
  3. They are aggressively pursuing the middle-class vote and have been bombarding them with messages seeking support.
  4. They’re gaining ground in the polls and hope to capture 20 new seats.
  5. They have a huge sales force compared to ours so we have to really target our efforts.
  6. She has won her fight to stop the photos being published, which she said was an invasion of privacy.
  7. All the big guns are through to the semi-finals of the competition so it’s going to be a tight battle to get through.
  8. The fifth set became a battle of wills as both players tired, and it was Murray who finally surrendered.
  9. They’ve had to join forces to fight off new start-ups that are challenging their position in the market.
  10. Tiredness can often reduce our defences against viruses that attack our bodies.

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