Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.1 - The best mistakes for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

In each of the following extracts from the article underline an idiom expressing feeling. What does each one mean?

Answer

  • a sinking feeling → an unpleasant feeling when you realise something bad is going to happen
  • welcome (errors / sth / sb) with open arms → be very pleased to encounter, meet, or experience something