Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.1 - What's in a name? for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

The article contains several colloquial expressions. What do you think words / phrases 1-7 mean? Use a dictionary to help you if necessary.

Answer

  1. choosing
  2. becoming stranger and more unusual
  3. reach a position of power or a top position (e.g. professionally)
  4. referring to your career
  5. settled, decided with little debate
  6. when a company calls potential employees for an interview after looking at their CV
  7. for people or things such as