The key answer of exercise 6
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - Fired! for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education
Question
Read the dictionary entry then underlined the metaphors in the advice below. What is the original meaning of the metaphors and which area of life do they come from?
Answer
- cultivate
- weed out
- hedged in
The metaphors all come from nature / agriculture / farming / gardening (any of these are acceptable).
- Cultivate = grow / nurture plants, giving them everything they need to grow.
- Weed (out) = removing unwanted wild plants from places where they may damage cultivated plants.
- Hedge = a line of bushes or small trees planted very close together to form a kind of fence.