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Answer — Exercise 6

2B - On the tip of my tongue·English File Advanced - Student's Book

Питання

  1. -
  2. Read the extracts again. Which word ...?
  3. Look at the highlighted words in the extracts, which are all used metaphorically. What is their literal meaning?

Відповідь

b)

  1. alcohol
  2. a treadmill
  3. a girl
  4. a blockbuster
  5. a cupboard

c)

  • pounce on = move suddenly forward in order to catch something
  • borrow = take and use something that belongs so somebody else
  • pick up = take hold of something and lift it up
  • resurrect = bring a dead person back to life

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