Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.4 - Tech trends for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs. What do you think the words / phrases in bold mean in these contexts?

Answer

  • take off → suddenly start being successful
  • breakout → newly famous and successful
  • pushed the boat out → spent a lot of money celebrating something because it is very special
  • take → opinion
  • to the fore → very noticeable