Answer — Exercise 7
7B - A masterpiece?·English File Advanced - Student's Book
Питання
- Complete the bold idioms with a colour from the list.
- With a partner, say what you think the idioms mean.
Відповідь
- out of the blue = suddenly, unexpectedly
- the black market = an illegal form of trade in which foreign money, or goods that are difficult to obtain, are bought and sold
- red tape = bureaucracy; official rules that seem more complicated than necessary and prevent things from being done quickly
- a white lie = a harmless or small lie, especially one that you tell to avoid hurting sb
- (see everything in) black and white = way that makes people or things seem completely bad or good, or completely right or wrong
- a white elephant = a thing that is useless and no longer needed, although it may have cost a lot of money
- a grey area = an area of a subject or situation that is not clear or does not fit into a particular group and is therefore difficult to define or deal with
- a red herring = an unimportant fact, idea, event, etc. that takes people's attention away from the important ones