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English Language Tests-Intermediate level's archive English Slang Idioms 96 1."Why haven't you gone on any dates in the past six months?. He doesn't even live in this area anymore," Lis

English Language Tests-Intermediate level's archive

English Slang Idioms (96)

1."Why haven't you gone on any dates in the past six

months? Don't tell me that you are still holding a for

Steve He doesn't even live in this area anymore," Lisa

said to her roommate

shamrock

shower

torch

locket

2."I can't believe Joe's holier-than- attitude toward

people who live together before they are married He

shouldn't be so judgmental of other people," Maggie said

to Elisa

thou

church

saint

pope

3.She was sure that her best friend had a leg She

could eat and eat and was still as skinny as a rail

fat

restricted

hollow

multipurpose

4.She had made a scene in front of the dinner party when

she had yelled at her boyfriend in front of everyone for not

allowing her have a cat He had agreed to let her get a cat

at dinner, but as it turned out, she had won kind of a

victory Her friends made excuses when she asked them

to do something with her and her boyfriend was still mad

wishy-washy

fragile

booty

hollow

5." smoke! You charge one hundred dollars to

change a head light? That is twice as much as anyone

else around here!" Willie told the mechanic

Billowing

Smelling

Holy

Cigar

6.Gas was now over four dollars a gallon He thought it

was highway since he had just read a report that the

gas companies had made record profits that year

robbery

mishap

construction

collisions

7.He had been in Iraq for 15 months now and couldn't wait

to get back to and hearth

home

yard

garden

shed

8.He had come from Israel but now the United States felt

more like home He figured that whoever had coined the

saying "home is where you lay your ," must have

had a similar background

bed

boots

eggs

hat

9."Well, there are only two more weeks left in the

semester We are on the stretch now," Morris said

to Jackson

long

big

home

barn

10.He knew that he would be able to finish Basic Training

and become a soldier With only a week left to go in the

program, he was on the final

frontier

stretch

match

path