Answer — Exercise 6
11 - Animal magic·Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Work in pairs. Discuss the following.
Answer
- Wedding goes with a ‘woof’ → we say something goes with a bang if it goes really well; it is changed here to goes with a woof, which is the sound a dog makes.
- Dinner not well done → well done is used to describe food that is cooked for a long time, but we also say well done! to somebody when they have done something good, or difficult, or done a good job. Here not well done means it was not a good thing that they ate the shark.
- Tips for birds → play on tips which can mean advice as well as money waiters get for good service
- From zero to hero → from being somebody with a negative reputation to somebody with a really positive reputation
- Milk of human kindness → a quote from Shakespeare meaning to show care and compassion for others; here, being kind to cows literally results in more milk
- Barking witness → barking is the noise a dog makes, but it also means crazy, from the expression barking mad
- Jail bird → an expression used to describe a person who has been in prison a lot
- The story about the parrot is not true. However, a Japanese restaurant did train some monkeys to do a similar job!