Business Idioms in America by Bruce Stirling

Author:Bruce Stirling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nova Press
Published: 2013-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

18.D Expansion Answers Pg. 183

Task Match the expressions in column A with the definitions in column B.

A

B

1) on cloud nine (to be) ____

2) have a nose for something (to) ____

3) right under one's nose (to be) ____

4) sugar coat (to) ____

5) brush up on something (to) ____

6) beat the system (to) ____

7) red tape ____

8) taskmaster (a) ____

9) slave over something (to) ____

10) slave to something (to be a) ____

11) go to the ends of the earth (to) ____

12) salt of the earth (the) ____

13) What on earth? ____

14) fall off the face of the earth (to) ____

15) the be-all and the end-all (S) ____

16) look good on paper (to) ____

17) paper over (to) ____

18) paper tiger (a) ____

19) scratch pad (a) ____

20) scratch____

A) to make something more appealing than it actually is

B) excessive official rules limiting/stopping progress

C) a note pad

D) money

E) to feel fantastic

F) to work at continually with slow progress

G) to go to the extreme

H) What is going on? What are you doing?

I) the best; a paragon

J) to work in theory

K) to review

L) to be so close you cannot see it

M) to disappear/vanish

N) to have a talent or knack for

O) to gain by breaking or bending the rules

P) a slave driver

Q) to have a strong desire for; addicted

R) one who is ethical/down-to-earth

S) to hide/cover up

T) to appear strong when weak in fact

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