Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 10

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.1 - Words of wisdom for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Replace the underlined phrases with metaphors and any necessary verbs.

Answer

  1. You'll go far.
  2. hard to swallow
  3. put aside some time
  4. half-baked
  5. go downhill
  6. living on borrowed time
  7. the peak
  8. food for thought