Answer — Exercise 6
4.4 - The con artist·Speakout Advanced - Students' Book
Question
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- Listen to two people talking about the case and check your ideas from Exercise 6A.
- Listen again and tick the key phrases you hear. Which phrases are idioms? What do they mean?
Answer
b)
- The forger made mistakes: The horses' reins in the relief were inconsistent with other reliefs of that period, and the forger made a spelling mistake on the inscription. The father, George, then offered to sell the piece at a suspiciously low price.
- In the end, Shaun was sentenced to four years in jail, and the family had to pay back £400,000. The parents were spared prison sentences because of their age.
c)
- All of the phrases are used.
- Idioms → Let something slip means you accidentally reveal a secret.; Give the game away means get caught by accidentally revealing something; Be on the right track means your guess is not far from the truth.