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The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.3 for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Lindsay White from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Correct the idioms.
  2. Match the idioms in Exercise 1A with their definitions.
  3. Complete the sentences with the correct idioms.

Answer

a)

  1. play devil's advocate
  2. sit on the fence
  3. speak your mind
  4. beat about the bush
  5. have a vested interest
  6. have an axe to grind

b)

  1. f
  2. d
  3. c
  4. b
  5. e
  6. a

c)

  1. sit on the fence
  2. vested interest
  3. speak my mind
  4. play devil's advocate
  5. beat about the bush
  6. axe to grind