Answer — Exercise 3

1

1. came up to (= a phrasal verb meaning approached)
2. didn’t catch anything (I didn’t catch a word means I didn’t hear and / or understand what people were saying)
3. with a mixture (note the linking and weak stress of the word of here, and in the phrases in 3 a, b and c)

2

1. cabin cleaner
2. which I find
3. saved them arguing (an idiomatic way of saying stopped them from arguing)

3

1. in search of
2. the support of
3. the middle of